Offline Address Book Cannot Be Associated with a Particular Mailbox (275203)

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In Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange Server 2003, an offline address list is associated with all the users that are contained in an information store. You cannot associate an offline address list with a particular mailbox or override the global offline address list settings for the information store.

For additional information about the latest service pack for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

301378 XGEN: How to Obtain the Latest Exchange 2000 Server Service Pack

No service pack is required for Exchange 2003.

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To successfully enable this feature, you must perform the following steps.

WARNING: If you use the ADSI Edit snap-in, the LDP utility, or any other LDAP version 3 client, and you incorrectly modify the attributes of Active Directory objects, you can cause serious problems. These problems may require you to reinstall Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, or both. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems that occur if you incorrectly modify Active Directory object attributes can be solved. Modify these attributes at your own risk.

Create an offline address list that contains a filtered copy of the global address list. For additional information about how to do so, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
280435 XADM: How to Create an Offline Address List that Contains a Filtered Copy of the Global Address List
NOTE: You must perform this step to successfully enable this feature. It is important that your offline address list contains only the filtered address list, and not a filtered global address list. If your offline address list contains any global address list, whether the default is global address list or a filtered global address list, users download the entire global address list, and not a filtered copy.
Associate the offline address list that you created in step 1 with a particular mailbox. To do so, use ADSI Edit or another LDAP version 3 client to set the msExchUseOAB attribute to the full distinguished name of the offline address list.