I have some Active Directory Distribution Groups setup in my test environment. In one group I have 2 users - one was enabled for OCS, the other was not. When I brough the group down to my Communicator Client it only showed the one user enabled for OCS (ok this made sense). I then went and enabled the second user, when back to communicator and did not see the user added. I tried doing an abserver.exe -syncnow to trigger an address book update and this did nothing.
The same applies to when I created some new distribution groups with some new users in them. I created the groups the same way I did my other one, added some enabled OCS users but then could not access them in my communicator client.
I've tried looking at the aberver.exe commands and I tried the abserver.exe -regenUR as well but this still had no change. I also did a complete reboot of my OCS server for good measure.
Is there any way to see these changes reflected back immediately in Communicator?
in order to see these changes immediately, you need a series of steps :
1) ABServer -regeUR Wait a few minutes for User replication to complete from your AD Servers (5-10 minutes at most, check on event viewer)
2) ABServer -SyncNOW Wait a few minutes for the Address Book files/database to complete (5-10 minutes usually)
3) Delete you local client galcontacts.db file and all other files in the same directory (c:\users\user\appdata\local\microsoft\communicator\sip:... in vista/7)
4) Sign in to communicator. You should see all your latest changes
Hope this helps.
Marked As Answer byGreg_ADWednesday, August 26, 2009 9:17 PM
That worked out well... is there anyway I can trigger the download of the GalContacts.db without having to restart Communicator?
Also, I have a separate OU from my User folder in AD. How come I cannot see these distribution groups in my Communicator? The groups are set to Universal in scope.
Active Directory Groups and OCS
