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Recover from accidentally deleting the All Address Lists Container.
1. You accidentally deleted the All Address Lists Container.
2. You didn’t have a backup of Active Directory so you have manually recreated the
All Address Lists Container.
3. You have created a new address list.
4. Created a new offline address list that uses the new address list.

When you now try to rebuild the offline address book you get the following events:

Event type: ERROR
Event Source: MSExchangeSA
Event Category: OAL Generator
Event: 9344
Description: OALGen could not find the address list with the Active Directory object GUID of
'/guid=DB1034E23D62334BBAB3ABF2AE132DD2' in the list of available address lists. Please check the offline address list configuration object.
- New OAB

And you get the:

Event type: ERROR
Event Source: MSExchangeSA
Event Category: OAL Generator
Event: 9334
Description:
OALGen encountered error 8004010f while initializing the offline address list generation process.
No offline address lists have been generated. Please check the event log for more information.
- New OAB

The easiest way to recover from this scenario is to:

1. Delete the All Address Lists Container.
2. Rerun ForestPrep (This will recreate the All Address Lists Container.)
3. Create a new Address List
4. Create a new offline address list that uses the new address list.
5. Rebuild the Offline Address List.
Posted: Oct 14 2004, 02:44 AM by michael.lundgren | with no comments