Yes I think you are right but again it is something we have checkout. My luck we go through all this and find the OAB is too big to fit on the deployment CD after all the other stuff is loaded.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Scharff Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 4:10 PM To: Exchange Discussions An Offline Address Book entry in the profile.... Now it's been at least 24 months since I messed with this, so don't hold me to it, but I don't think there is such a thing. There's the Outlook Address Book service in the profile, but it's not related to the Offline Address Book I don't think. Then there's the option in the synchronization settings to download the Offline Address Book, but IIRC (and I'm certainly not saying that I do) the Offline Address Book downloading process looks to one of the OAB files which contains a checkpoint file to determine what changes need to be downloaded. On 3/11/03 14:41, "Tony Hlabse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > We are using the ORK to make a MST to install Outlook2002 along with a > default profile. Copying a OAB file to the correct folder and changing the > files rights sounds straight forward. My question is then don't I need to > include an Offline Address Book entry in the profile? Maybe I should just > get testing and find this out. Thanks Chris for a starting point. > > > From: Chris Scharff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Pushing OAB out to end users. > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 14:26:33 -0600 > > Yeah.. I believe all that we really did was copy it[1] to the proper > location and uncheck the read-only attribute. New CDs were burned every 2 > weeks I believe, which was necessary as they were migrating users over from > another mail system at the same time they were doing the deployment. > > [1] "it" being the 5(?) *.oab files. > > On 3/11/03 14:10, "Tony Hlabse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Your first few sentences describes exactly what we would like to do. Send > a >> CD to all/most users with Outloo2002 deployment and a starting point OAB. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Chris Scharff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Pushing OAB out to end users. >> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 14:07:01 -0600 >> >> It can be done.[1] I worked through the logistics of doing so for a large >> customer a couple of years ago. I believe they wound up writing a script > to >> wrap around the Outlook installation and configuration process which > copied >> the OAB files from a network share or possibly a CD. OL2003 might have > some >> other mechanisms for handling this... But I haven't seen the deployment >> tools yet to be sure. >> >> [1] At least through OL2K. >> >> On 3/11/03 11:22, "Tony Hlabse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Has anyone pushed out an OAB to end users to preload that file during >>> Outlook deployment for a new email system. This way when they go online >> only >>> the updates will be pulled down. With over 50K users in the GAL we are >>> trying to minimize traffic when the Exchange system goes live. We think >> it >>> can be done just never done it and was wondering if anyone here has done >>> this. If so how did you do it. >> > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
