The offline Address Book may not download successfully in Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003

When your Microsoft Outlook client tries to download the offline Address Book, the offline Address Book may not download successfully. Events that are similar to the following are recorded to the synchronization log. Note The synchronization log is located in the Deleted Items folder.

This problem occurs when the default Global Address List is removed from the Microsoft Exchange Server organization. The Outlook profile that contains address list information tries to download the changes in the default Global Address List. Because the default Global Address List has been removed, the offline Address Book download is not successful.

How to obtain the hotfix

This issue is fixed in the Outlook 2003 Hotfix Package that is dated September 9, 2004. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

To work around this problem, you must download the offline Address Book manually. To do this, follow these steps in the Outlook client.

1. Click Tools, point to Send/Receive, and then click Download Address Book.
2. Click OK to accept the Offline Address Book dialog box settings.