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Outlook OAB offline distribution

Hi,

Our exchange administrator has made a mistake and delete all external contacts... Now he's recreated them but with the wrong policy (invalid mail addresses), and although this mistake was also fixed manually - the new OAB does not propagate to external users who are not connected to the LAN, and this time he does not know how to fix it..

Is there a way to send the OAB as file and MANUALLY replace the existing one in Outlook?

Thanks in advance

Stelian Stan

Are those user able to receive email using Outlook from outside the network? If yes, then it will update their OAB usually every morning around 5 a.m.

If you want to push the oab then run:
Get-OfflineAddressBook |Update-OfflineAddressBook

For more information: https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/A_5064-9-Steps-to-end-OAB-nightmares.html

Gareth Gudger

When you say it does not propagate to external users, is Outlook Anywhere configured in the environment?

IT_Group1

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Thanks.
Since I'm an end-used and doesn't have access to the Exchange/IIS in this case, I know for a fact that the OAB is not being synchronized properly using Outlook Anywhere, probably due to a firewall/IIS issue - and the sys admin is not care to solve it. SO i'm looking for a `creative` method to get an offline copy of the OAB and send it to the relevant users so I will be able to receive mail again!

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