How to Plan and Deploy Offline Address Book(OAB)

Offline Address Book plays important role in Exchange Services Offline address book(OAB) is the Local Copy downloaded to the Outlook Client Machine from the Exchange Servers for the Local Queries of address resolutions when disconnected from Exchange Servers. Consider the following areas when you planning and implementing the Offline Address Book (OAB) in better way. […]

Unable to enable GlobalWebDistributionEnabled for Offline Address Book (OAB)

When try to enable the GlobalWebDistributionEnabled for the Shadow Copy using the below Command, Get-OfflineAddressBook |Set-OfflineAddressBook -ShadowMailboxDistributionEnabled $true -GlobalWebDistributionEnabled $true PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-OfflineAddressBook |Set-OfflineAddressBook -ShadowMailboxDistributionEnabled $true -GlobalWebDistributionEnabled $true The offline address book “\Default Offline Address Book” has virtual directories specified. Run the following command to remove those virtual directories before attempting to set the GlobalWebDistributionEnabled parameter […]

How Does Offline Address Book (OAB) Works

How Does Offline Address Book (OAB) Works – Deep Dive (Part 1)

Welcome to Offline address Book(OAB) multi part articles, In this Series, we are going to learn the complete details of OAB on How it works. How Does Offline Address Book (OAB) Works – Deep Dive (Part 1) How Does Offline Address Book (OAB) Works – Deep Dive (Part 2) How Does Offline Address Book (OAB) […]

Address Book (OAB) Works – Deep Dive

How Does Offline Address Book (OAB) Works – Deep Dive (Part 2)

In previous Article, we have seen what is Outlook Offline Address(OAB) and how does it works. How Does Offline Address Book (OAB) Works – Deep Dive (Part 1) How Does Offline Address Book (OAB) Works – Deep Dive (Part 3) How to Plan and Deploy Offline Address Book(OAB) In this Article, we will see how […]

Offline Address Book (OAB) Works – Deep Dive

How Does Offline Address Book (OAB) Works – Deep Dive (Part 3)

In previous Articles, Part1 and Part2 we have seen what is Outlook Offline Address(OAB) and how does it works. How Does Offline Address Book (OAB) Works – Deep Dive (Part 1) How Does Offline Address Book (OAB) Works – Deep Dive (Part 2) How to Plan and Deploy Offline Address Book(OAB) In this Article, we […]

The pop-up shows up as “AdxTaskPane” and displays the image

The pop-up shows up as “AdxTaskPane” and displays the image

Noticed an issue in the Office 365 Proplus and Microsoft office 2016, Any office applications when we open in backend there is popup shows below image and task list it shows as “AdxTaskPane” This can be even noticed in the taskbar as well, Issue: This could be because of Azure niformation protection toolbar add-in which […]

Unable to reach IDP Initiated page of ADFS in Server 2016

Unable to reach IDP Initiated page of ADFS in Server 2016

Noticed IDPInitiated signon page is not loading by default in Adfs 2016 as it is loading in pervious versions. Default IDP URL : https://adfsname.domainname.com/adfs/ls/idpinitiatedsignon.aspx In my case, https://sts.windowstechpro.com/adfs/ls/idpinitiatedsignon.aspx Ideally, in ADFS 2016 it is disabled by default. Run the below command to see status of the IDP Initiatedsignon page. Get-AdfsProperties | Select-Object EnableIdpInitiatedSignonpage Now, To […]

Error 400 Bad Request when connecting ADFS Services

Noticed Error 400 Bad request in ADFS when trying to reach adfs services for authentication. ideally it happens if created CNAME record for ADFS Services. ADFS Will not support mapping the CNAME Record for the ADFS. It is recommended to have A record for the ADFS. Once created correct record, restart ADFS services in ADFS […]

Cannot open mailbox Microsoft System Attendant

Issue: When trying to migrate the mailboxes in Exchange, throws the below Error Cannot open mailbox /o=First Organization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Configuration/cn=Servers/cn=MAILBOX01/cn=Microsoft System Attendant Resolution: Ideally it happens if there is no proper Database Home MDB mapped for Microsoft System Attendant mailbox for the server. In the ADSIEDIT, Locate the following path, CN=Configuration,CN=Services,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Exchange Administrative […]