The address book function in Exchange 2007 is broken when an Exchange OWA client and a Windows Server 2003-based domain controller do not have the same locale setting

When you try to access the Address Book in Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access, you may receive an exception that resembles the following:

The address book (AB) function in Exchange 2007 does not work when the Exchange Outlook Web Access (OWA) client and the domain controller do not have the same locale setting.

OWA lets users select the language that they want to use for their user interface (UI). The language that users select determines the locale setting. OWA also uses that language to sort Active Directory results, such as the address book. When Exchange runs a Virtual List Views (VLV) query and specifies a language that is not available on the domain controller, an error occurs. This problem occurs because there is currently no default indexing mechanism that enables Exchange to use a different language if the language that is specified for a VLV query does not match the language of the domain controller.

Update information

The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
Release Date: October 17, 2006

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Prerequisites

To receive this update, you must have Microsoft Exchange 2007 in your environment.

Restart requirement

You have to restart domain controllers after you apply this update.

Update replacement information

This update does not replace any other updates.

File information

The English version of this update has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.
Windows Server 2003, x86-based versions with Service Pack 1Windows Server 2003, x64-based versionsWindows Server 2003, Itanium-based versions with Service Pack 1

Update installation information

When you install this update, you may experience the following symptoms:

• You receive the following error message:
  Failed to migrate dependent packages.
• The following information is logged in the %WINDIR%\KB919166.log file:

  Update.exe extended error code = 0xf0ea
  

You may experience this issue if Windows Internet Explorer 7 is installed. To resolve this issue, remove Internet Explorer 7, and then reapply the update.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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