Turn off Outlook Address book message

[Guest]

I keep getting messages saying that Outlook will download a full version of
our company's address book, do I want to proceed?

Being that it has over 10K names, I surely don't! Is there somewhere I can
turn off this function? I get asked several times per day.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Choose Tools | Send/Receive | Send/Receive Settings | Define Send/Receive Groups and bring up the settings for All Accounts. You'll see the Address Book Settings button there to control how much of the address book is downloaded. A full download may be occasionally necessary if a lot of changes have been made since the last download, but you can get "no details" instead of "full details."
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Sue, I have never downloaded the address book, and I never want to. I just
want it to stop asking me and stop trying to download it.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Are you working in Cached Exchange mode? Always connected to the mail server?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

No, I have the cached exchange option deselected

Are you working in Cached Exchange mode? Always connected to the mail server?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

In the Send/Receive Settings dialog I suggested, did you clear the "Download Offline Address Book" box? Or was it already unchecked?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers