Tag Archives: Address Book

25Jun 2009

E2K7: Creating Custom SMTP E-mail Address Policies Utilizing Various Replacement String Combinations

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 well as offer numerous examples which should assist you when tasked with creating your own custom proxy address templates in Exchange 2007.

03Sep 2008

How the OCS Address Book Works

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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 AddressBook share as .dabs files. After the initial installation and at 1:30 AM every day after that ABServer.exe will provide a full update to the AddressBook share with a lsabs file.
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26Aug 2008

Regenerating the Corporate Address Book on Office Communication Server 2007

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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.