Dgoldman's WebLog
The daily adventures of an Escalation Engineer
New version of OABInteg will be out soon
I have been doing a lot of work on OABInteg recently with regards to Exchange 2007. Some of the new...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 12/24/2006
Defensive programming 101
What is defensive programming? Defensive programming is an approach to improve your source code and...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 11/27/2006
Error 0x80190194 when using an Outlook 2007 client to download a Web Distribution enabled OAB
You can receive the following error (0x80190194) in Outlook when trying to download a Web...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 11/27/2006
Missing OAB Template Language ID's cause generation problems.
Under certain circumstances the OAB Generation process can fail when OABGen.dll is able to query the...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 11/19/2006
How to create a Global Address List programmatically using Visual Basic
Since I do a fair share of programming in Visual Basic, C# and C++ I thought I would post something...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 11/13/2006
Exchange 2003 SP2 DSProxy (Referral Service) Changes
I wanted to post something on how MAPI clients connect to a domain controllers and instead of...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 11/12/2006
How to deploy the .oab and .ost files for use with Outlook 2003 in Cached Mode Exchange
Outlook 2003 introduces Cached Exchange Mode. Cached Exchange Mode lets you work primarily from...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 10/25/2006
Outlook client fails to download the OAB with error 0x8004011B
Earlier today I saw a post on one of the aliases where a customer was having issues downloading the...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 10/23/2006
Generating a newly created Offline Address Book fails with Event ID's 9331 and 9335
There is one situation that can cause a newly created Offline Address List to fail when being...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 10/15/2006
The Exchange System Attendant fails to start with 9175 and MAPI Error 80040111-0286-00000000
Often people will ask me a question like "What do you do as an Escalation Engineer at Microsoft?"...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 10/15/2006
Exchange 2000 Server and full OAB downloads due to invalid legacyExchangeDN's
As we know the PDN issues cause massive problems and contribute full OAB downloads. Recently I just...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 10/12/2006
TechNet Support WebCast: How to troubleshoot Offline Address Book issues in Microsoft Exchange Server
Today I was going through some of my old links and I came across the OAB Troubleshooting web cast...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 10/08/2006
OABInteg breaks 10,000 downloads
I just wanted to thank everybody that has used OABInteg. Today we hit 10,000 downloads, and this is...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 09/28/2006
Is your Outlook client downloading an ANSI or Unicode OAB?
A Microsoft Exchange server can contain 3 different version of the OAB (OAB Version 2, OAB Version 3...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 09/16/2006
How to fix missing or duplicate Addressing Templates that cause OAB Generation errors
Addressing Templates are very important to Exchange and the OAB Generation process. There are two...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 09/09/2006
New Test added to OABInteg and updates on future releases
I have just published a new release of OABInteg, on - https://code.msdn.com/oabinteg. This usually...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 09/09/2006
NoMas is now on being hosted on GotDotNet
I wanted to let everyone know that I have posted NoMas on GotDotNet.com. I posted the tool there...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 09/08/2006
How to work with Exchange 2007 / Exchange 2010 OAB Event Logging
In Exchange 2007 we introduced the Microsoft Exchange Scripting Console as a mechanism for...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 08/26/2006
How Exchange 2007 OAB Files are replicated to a Client Access Server for download
In prior versions of Exchange the Offline Address List files would reside in the form of an OAB...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 08/25/2006
How to deal with multiple OAB public system folders of the same type
I recently looked at a case for a customer and I saw something very interesting. The problem they...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 08/10/2006
Cached mode Outlook users do not see the Assistant field data when downloading the OAB
I had an interesting case about 3 weeks ago where a customer called in and they stated that they...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 08/05/2006
New blogs to come
I am not one for writting to many personal things, but I am sorry for not posting many blogs as of...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 08/03/2006
Troubleshooting the Outlook Send/Receive with error 0x80040119
Another problem I have seen in the newsgroups and floating around on the Internet is that people are...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 07/03/2006
OABInteg - The dumpPDNtable test is now a MAPI test
I wanted to post an update for OABInteg. I have been really busy as of late writing the Beta 2...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 07/03/2006
MAPI Editor (MFCMapi) has been officially released!!
I have used MFCMapi for a long time and it is a extreamly usefull tool when troubleshooting MAPI...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 07/03/2006
New Active Directory objects are not showing after Cached Mode clients download the OAB
I have been spending a fair amount of time in the newsgroups lately, and I have seen a lot of posts...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 07/03/2006
Troubleshooting Offline Address Book Downloads with Outlook Diagnostic Logging (Event ID 27)
This blog covers how to troubleshoot problems that are related to offline address book downloads. I...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 06/19/2006
Standalone installation package for MAPI and CDO
An installation package is now available. For more information please refer to this following link:...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 06/19/2006
OAB Generation and the 9339 event id
The 9338 and 9339 event ID’s that are logged in the application log indicate that there was a...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 06/14/2006
New SP2 default behavior and OAB Generation PDN Changes
There has been a lot of questions and confusion around the differences in the behavior between...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 05/26/2006
The DS Server registry key and rebuilding an Offline Address List
I wanted to talk briefly about using the DS Server registry value for hard coding Exchange servers...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 05/06/2006
OAB property filtering for Exchange 2003 / 2007
As most people know the new version of OAB in Exchange Server 2003 SP2 is OAB version 4. In Exchange...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 04/29/2006
New version of OABInteg post to the web
I am writing a fast update to inform everybody that I have finished another revision of OABInteg....
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 04/15/2006
How Mailbox quota limit messages can impact server performance
I wanted to talk a little bit in this blog about Mailbox Quota Limits “Mailbox over the limit”, and...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 04/01/2006
OAB full downloads and server side paged pool depletion
Recently I participated in another fun critsit where a customer had massive issues caused by full...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 02/10/2006
OAB messages and message size restrictions
I had a chance to work a pretty interesting OAB issue with a co-worker the other day. We had a...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 02/06/2006
How does OABGen know what domain controller to connect to?
In this article I will explain how the OAB Generation process discovers the domain controller that...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 01/26/2006
MSFT Support Article - Description of the Offline Address Book Integrity (OABInteg) tool
Adding the link for the Microsoft Knowledge Support Article for easy finding :)...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 12/30/2005
Exchange Insider Articles on TechCenter
There are a number of the "Exchange Insider" articles starting to trickle out onto the TechCenter...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 12/06/2005
OAB PDN Changes and Exchange Site Consolidations
Recently I have been involved with debugging a lot of OAB issues. One of the most interesting issues...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2005
Technet Exchange Insider Article - Offline Address List Generation Overview
Recently I was asked to write an article for the Exchange Insider portion of Technet. The article...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 10/10/2005
OABInteg explained on MSexchange.org
Earlier today I was doing some research and came across this article on OABInteg. Henrik Walther who...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 09/13/2005
OABInteg and how to use it to troubleshoot OAB generation issues.
With all of the extensive troubleshooting and debugging that I have done over the last year for OAB...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 08/28/2005
How OAB certificate filtering works
Neil Shipp wrote a great article on how the OAB certification filter works. Neil's blog can be found...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 08/02/2005
OAB version 4 in Exchange 2003 service pack 2 (SP2)
OAB Version 4 is a new addition to the Offline Address Book infrastructure. It was designed to help...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 08/01/2005
How to troubleshoot the OAB Generation process
I thought I would take a few minutes to post some information on how to troubleshoot OAB Generation...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 07/16/2005
Outlook client OAB download process
Here is some information on how the outlook clients connect to the public folder information store...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 04/28/2005
Overview of the OABgen process
I have some free time this week so I figured that I would post a blog in regard to the OAB...
Author: DGoldman [MSFT] Date: 03/31/2005