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Jesslyn Hendrix

How often does your offline address book update in Outlook 2003/Exchange
2003 cached mode?
 
The Outlook client pulls the OAB once every 24 hours. Exchange rebuilds the
OAB once a day (default is 4 or 5 in the morning).
 
Yes, once every 24 hours. If the sync needs to happen more often, the user
can add/modify a send/receive group to include syncing the OAB.
 
Hello Jesslyn,

Thank you for requesting here.

The Offline Address Book is a snapshot of the Active Directory directory
service information that is available in the global address list. It
contains a set of all the properties of a user (such as e-mail addresses
and names) that Outlook requires.

If left constantly running, Outlook 2003 in cached mode automatically
updates the Offline Address Book on the client every 24 hours. The 24-hour
time period is measured from the time that the Offline Address Book was
last downloaded successfully. For example, if you complete an Offline
Address Book download at 09:00 today, Outlook will start the Offline
Address Book download the next day at approximately 09:00. Therefore,
different people will receive updates at different, random times.

Also, you can also increase the frequency of the client Offline Address
Book downloads. To do this:
1. On the Tools menu, point to Send/Receive, point to Send/Receive
Settings, and then click Define Send/Receive Groups.
2. Click New.
3. Type a name for the custom group.
4. Click your Exchange account, and then click to select the Include the
selected account in this group check box.
5. Under Select the options you want for the selected account group, make
sure that the only check box that is selected is Download offline address
book, and then click OK.
6. In the Send/Receive Groups dialog box, click your new group.
7. Under Setting for group Group_name, click to select only the Schedule an
automatic send/receive every check box, and then enter the number of
minutes.
8. Under When Outlook is offline, click to clear the check boxes.
9. Click Close.

More info, refer to the following article:

841273 Administering the Offline Address Book in Outlook 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=841273

Hope this helps. Have a nice day!

Thanks & Regards
Alan Sun
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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