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Exchange 2007 fails to create Public Folder Offline Address Books (OAB)

I have completed a migration from a 2003 environment to 2007. Since 2007 server has become the new Public folder server, If I create a new Offline Address Book - it does not get the version 2, 3, or 4 files created in Public Folders. The root folder is their, but no subfolders. Generation and updates for all other Offline Address books - and their public folder versions works fine. Only newly created ones (since the 2007 server became the Public folder server) fail to get generated.

If I Manually run the update (update-OfflineAddressbook OABName) I receive the following errors inthe even log:

Event Type:      Error
Event Source:      MSExchangeSA
Event Category:      OAL Generator
Event ID:      9344
Date:            2/13/2009
Time:            11:22:44 AM
User:            N/A
Computer:      Exchange Server
Description:
OALGen could not find the address list with the Active Directory object GUID of '/guid=E71B78238CC3BC4C83B90B59271994AD' in the list of available address lists. Please check the offline address list configuration object.
- OABName
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Event Type:      Error
Event Source:      MSExchangeSA
Event Category:      OAL Generator
Event ID:      9334
Date:            2/13/2009
Time:            11:22:44 AM
User:            N/A
Computer:      Exchange Server
Description:
OALGen encountered error 8004010f while initializing the offline address list generation process. No offline address lists have been generated. Please check the event log for more information.
- OABName
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

And Again - this does NOT happen across the board. Only for the new Offline Address books I have created since moving the Public Folder database to the 2007 Server.

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sandeep_narkhede

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athelu

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I have a ton of them in there. are you saying I should remove them all?

sandeep_narkhede

Basically, you should not have the parent & the child address book together. If you have the child ones then remove the parent.

Conslusion is no two address book should be there which has a subset of objects common in them

athelu

ASKER

That is what I thought. So I am good. I reviewed the OAB's listed and I have no parent or child level objects conflicting.

Any other suggestions?

sandeep_narkhede

another thing, I want you to remove "All Address List" from the AddressBookRoots if it exists there. you may want to take a backup of that entry before you remove it, however I stringly feel that , this is what we should need to review

athelu

ASKER

all address list is not there. I did not have to delete it either.

athelu

ASKER

Anything else you can suggest?

I am finding very little online on this.

athelu

ASKER

the addressBookRoots attribute on the Microsoft Exchange container in ADSIEdit was the Key. It was not because of Parent/Child issues, but Because these address lists were not added there.

Thanks for getting me in the right direction.