Some users where complaining about the Offline Address Book being out-of-date. Checking the Event Viewer on the cluster node which creates the OAB showed the following error:
OALGen detected that the file ‘…..lzx’ is corrupted
or missing. This indicates data tampering or disk problems. Restore
files in this folder from the recent backup or clean up folder content
and force a full OAB generation. – Default Offline Address Book
So I ran:
Get-OfflineAddressBook | fl Name,Server,AddressLists,IsDefault,Guid
This gets the Guid for the Address Book which we use in:
Update-OfflineAddressBook <paste GUID here>
The Event Log showed another error and advised increasing the verbosity of error logs so I ran:
Set-EventLogLevel -id “MSExchangeSA\OAL Generator” -Level expert -verbose
I then ran the Update-OfflineAddressBook command again and this time there were extra information logs in the event log but the updated OAB was created.
Update-OfflineAddressBook <paste GUID here>
I checked that the OAB was being replicated out to the CAS servers.
A great post about Exchange OAB can be found here including a script to check for the staleness of the OAB.