Disable Use of OAB in Cached Mode

[Guest]

I want to use Cached Exchange Mode but I also want my users to contact the GC
for address book inquiries.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823580 &
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841273
Both discuss disabling the automatic download of the address book. I find
if all of the .odb files are not on the local computer the client uses the GC
to resolve names. If I restart Outlook or do a Send/Receive All the Address
Book gets downloaded. If the address book is download then it gets used.
I want the Oulook clients to ALWAYS use the GC to resolve names.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you have a specific need to always use the GAL when resolving names to
actual addresses, you can force Outlook to do this modifying the registry:

Key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Cached
Mode

Value name: ANR Include Online GAL
Value type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1 (1=enabled, 0=disabled)

 

[Guest]

FYI - I found the KB below and found that it did not work. I had to call MS
support. They gave me 5 registry entries in order to disable the OAB
download and disable the menu option. They did not charge me for the call.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

What didn't work? My testing found that the ANR Include Online GAL worked
exactly as expected to force the user to resolve against the GAL, not the
OAB in all cases.

Just curious: What registry values did they suggest to disable the OAB
download?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

I found that if the .oab files were not present on the local computer clients
would resolve names to the GAL server. After manual download the files would
get downloaded. After the files were downloaded the clients would use it for
address resolution. I got this information directly from MS. This works as
long as you manually delete the local .oab files. Hope this helps:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Exchange\Exchange Provider]
"Limit SRS Incremental Download"=dword:00000000
"Limit Manual OAB Download"=dword:00000000
"Limit SRS Full OAB Download"=dword:00000000
"Allow SRS Full OAB Download"=dword:00000000

- the above registry key prevents both automatic and manual (Send/Receive)
download of the Offline Address Book (OAB)
- the registry key DWORD "Allow SRS Full OAB Download" is responsible for
preventing Automatic Downloads of the OAB


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\DisabledCmdBarItemsList]
"TCID1"="5658"

Craig