Thursday, April 30, 2009 2:56 PM by Eric Norberg

 I have recently received a number of questions surrounding the generation of e-mail addresses in Exchange 2007. Particularly, whether or not custom email addresses can be generated via “legacy” replacement strings to meet specific organizational naming conventions.
This post will present a brief overview of the process as [...]

How the OCS Address Book Works

Posted by Dave on 03 Sep 08 - 1 Comment

The OCS 2007 Address Book service’s primary purpose is to provide updated GAL information to the OC 2007 client. It will also provide phone number normalization service for OC 2007 clients. The ABServer.exe is scheduled to query AD periodically for updates to user / group /information and provide this delta of updated information to the [...]

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007\Server\Core>abserver -regenUR
Wait 5 minutes and then run the same command with the -SyncNow switch
On the client, close Office Communicator, and delete GALContacts.db (found in the user’s profile directory under Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Communicator) and then restart the client.