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How to Quickly Rebuild an Exchange 2010 Offline Address Book

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In a test environment (and sometimes in a production environment) you need to quickly rebuild the offline address book, and quickly get the updated address book in Outlook:

Steps for quickly rebuild OAB:

1. Start EMS

2. Update OAB:

3. Initiate OAB replication from mail box server to CAS server. Execute for each CAS server:

4.Now start Outlook and download OAB:

 

References

  1. Move the Offline Address Book Generation Process to Another Server
  2. Update the Offline Address Book
  3. GAL Photos in Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010
  4. How offline Address books works in Exchange 2010