XADM: Troubleshooting Failure to Generate Offline Address Book Problems
ID: Q177763
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The information in this article applies to:
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Microsoft Exchange Server, versions 4.0, 5.0
SUMMARY
This article is a troubleshooting guide to use when an attempt to generate
the offline address book (OAB) fails with errors.
One or more of the following errors may occur. Note that other symptoms
besides the ones listed may also occur.
- Event ID 5004: Generation of the offline Address Book is complete.
Result: The MAPI call failed.<<80004005>>.
- Event ID 5012: Failed to generate offline address book for container: /.
Results: An unexpected, unknown error occurred. 8004010b.
- The clients can download the Offline Address Book, without any errors.
- You get the same Event IDs connecting locally and remotely.
- You may also see Errors 1232 or 1233.
MORE INFORMATIONTroubleshooting Procedure
To troubleshoot, perform the following steps:
- Ensure that you are logged on as a user with at least Administrator
permissions at the Organization, Site, and Configuration levels. If
not, change the permissions or log on as someone with those permissions,
and then attempt to generate the Offline Address Book. Ensure that the
offline address book server is the server you are connected to when
generating the OAB.
- Ensure that the Offline Address Book folder is listed in the "Folders on
this Information Store" option. To confirm whether it is listed,
perform the following steps:
- In the Administrator window, click Servers, and select a server.
- Double-click Public Information Store.
- Click the Instances tab.
If the OAB is not listed, add it to this location and allow time for it
to replicate. You should be able to view the properties of the OAB. Now
try generating the Address Book.
- If steps 1 and 2 both fail, try generating the OAB on different servers
in the site. To do this, use these steps:
- Connect to the Exchange Administrator program on another server, and
then change the OAB server entry to the new server.
- In the Administrator windows, click Configuration, and then double-
click DS Site Configuration.
- Click the Offline Address Book tab and change the OAB server entry to
the new server.
- Try to generate the OAB.
- Next try different containers (Recipients, Custom, or Global Address
List). Also, create a new container to test.
- Start the Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator program in raw mode.
WARNING: Using raw mode of Exchange Server Administrator incorrectly can
cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall Windows NT
Server and/or Exchange Server. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems
resulting from the incorrect use of raw mode can be solved. Use raw mode
at your own risk.
Expand the site that contains the server. In the Configuration
container, expand the Information Store Site Configuration. On the File
menu, click Raw Properties. Check the server name listed for Site-
Folder-Server, making sure that there is a Replica of the offline
address book on this server, and that you can access the properties
while you are connected to this server. If not, follow the instructions
in step 2, and then try generating the Address Book.
- If steps 3,4, and 5 fail, restart the Exchange Services in Control
Panel. Double-click the Services icon, and run DS/IS Consistency
Adjustment on the server indicated in Site-Folder-Server.
NOTE: Do not perform the DS/IS consistency adjustment if the replication
connection has been broken and will be reconnected later or if Directory
Replication is occurring.
Now try generating the OAB.
- Check to see if there is more than one Language Template installed in
any site. To verify this:
- Connect to one server in each site.
- Double-click the site name.
- Under the Site globe, open Configuration/Addressing/Details
Templates.
This can also be verified at the following location:
Configuration/Addressing/One-Off Address Templates.
If more than one language is listed, make sure the server generating the
OAB has the same languages installed in its site. When this situation
exists, it can be resolved by either removing the additional language(s)
from the other sites or installing the language templates in the site
that is having problems generating the OAB.
- Check the version of the Mapi32.dll file. It should match the
appropriate version of Exchange Server. The version numbers can be
verified according to the instructions in Microsoft Knowledge Base
article Q172036, "INFO: MAPI Version Cross Reference."
- The case may require the Oabgen.dll fix, which can be obtained from
Microsoft Technical Support. There are two versions, one for Exchange
Server version 4.0 and one for version 5.0.
- If all of the above steps seem to result in the same errors and/or
events, it will be necessary to implement Guidgen on the Exchange Server
computer.
CAUTION: The Guidgen utility should be used with caution. Guidgen will
rebuild (erase) all the site folders. Before using Guidgen, Oabgen.dll may
be the better solution.
NOTE: At each step, check the application log for errors. Run the Guidgen
utility on the server that will become the new Site-Folder-Server. This
will delete the existing Offline Address Book. After this has been
successfully done, the Information Store on each server in the site, must
be stopped and restarted before generating the offline address Book.
Keywords : XADM
Version : WINDOWS:4.0,5.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo
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