#GET OFFLINE ADDRESS BOOK SERVER MANUAL#

Set-OfflineAddressBook -Identity “Default Offline Address Book (Ex2016)” -GlobalWebDistributionEnabled $trueĪnd finally let’s confirm to make sure the changes take effect and look for the values of “GlobalWebDistributionEnabled” and “WebDistributionEnabled” using the command:Īfter making the above changes I recommend issuing an “iisreset” or restarting your Exchange Server. Now let’s set the “GlobalWebDistributionEnabled” flag to True using this next command: Let’s find the name of your Offline Address Book by running the command below: When setting this second flag to True, it also sets the first one above to True as well. There’s also a different flag “GlobalWebDistributionEnabled”, which is recommended to be enabled as well on Exchange 2016. This flag when set to true, allows it to be distributed (Note/Fun Fact: There’s a separate and different flag for older Exchange versions where the OAB is inside of the Public Folder Store). I finally discovered that the “WebDistributionEnabled” configuration flag was marked to False, when it needs to be marked as True. I couldn’t find any references of this occurring to other users. It simply wasn’t being passed to Outlook clients. All my virtual directories and URLs were fine, and the OAB was being generated fine without any issues. I spent 3 hours trying to find out why this was happening (I assumed it was configuration and/or IIS authentication related). Also when using the “Test EMail AutoConfiguration.” (by holding CTRL and right click on Outlook System Tray icon) to examine the AutoDiscover information, there was no OAB URL (OABUrl in XML) being sent to the clients.

#GET OFFLINE ADDRESS BOOK SERVER MANUAL#

When trying to perform a manual download (Send and Receive -> Download Address Book), it wasn’t in the list.

After doing a migration from Microsoft Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016 I noticed that my Offline Address Book (OAB) wasn’t being made available to Outlook clients.

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