Deleted Mailboxes still listed in global address book 1

[frumpus]

Recently I ran a vbscript to delete about 1200 mailboxes from Exchange 2003. We do not wish to delete the network accounts, we just needed to get rid of their mailboxes. The problem is that they are all still listed in the Global Address List and we want them out of there.

Is there a simple utility that will refresh the address list? What exactly populates that list?

 

[BrianH1]

Outlook downloads the address list periodically. Make sure your domain is in sync then download the address book in outlook (tools, send and recieve, download address book) then check again.

 

[frumpus]

That cleared them out, thanks. Any idea how long before everyone will be updated or suggestions on a way to push the new list to the users?

 

[BrianH1]

The change must be picked up by the Exchange computer that generates the offline address book files. This can take several hours. At worst, it can take 24 hours. This variable will be referred to as "x."

• The Outlook clients must download the offline address book updates every 24 hours. This update can take several hours. At worst, it can take 24 hours. This variable will be referred to as "y."

The update reaches the client machines x+y hours later. It would be rare for a client to ever experience a 48-hour delay or more unless there were some Active Directory or public folder replication issues.

This is from

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841273

Hope it's useful.
Brian.

 

[frumpus]

it is! thank you

 

[zbnet]

That is true for Outlook when running in cached mode - if not in cached mode, GAL lookups are done against a GC server in real time.