|
Its been always an interesting
topic to discuss about the scope of users who would be shown in the address book
search. Suppose you have an organization where OCS is deployed but not all of the
users are enabled for OCS. You have broadly three categories of users:
-
Users which are enabled
for SIP (they might be enabled for email as well).
-
Users which are having
either telephone number, home number or mobile number.
-
Users which are enabled
for email but not for SIP, and these users don't have their contact number configured
in their Active Directory account.
If a communicator user
will be able to search only above two types of users. The third category users which
are enabled for email but not for SIP and they don't have contact number set in
active directory account, will not appear in address book search of Microsoft Office
Communicator.
An Active
Directory user should have at least one of the following attributes set before it
appears in Address book search.
You can use ABS Configuration
Tool (absconfig.exe), if you want to enable administrators to configure AD attributes
and WMI settings, related to ABS.
Using this tool you can
decide if you want any user with particular AD attribute set, should appear in address
book search or not! Suppose any organization doesn't want non-SIP enabled users to
appear in address book search, you can use ABS Configuration Tool to achieve that.
ABS
Configuration Tool
ABS Configuration
Tool is a graphical user interface application that enables administrators to configure
AD attributes and WMI settings, related to ABS.
The primary scenarios
for the tool are:
1. To enable administrators to map attributes
in the AD to the attributes for Office Communicator.
2. To enable administrators to specify the list
of attributes to be included in the ABS files.
3. To enable administrators to configure WMI settings
and thereby all common tasks related to ABS files.
ABS Configuration Tool
can be run only from a domain-joined computer that has Microsoft Office Communications
Server installed. In the case of an Enterprise Edition of Office Communications
Server, this tool can be run on either of the Front Ends that have ABS enabled during
setup.
ABS Configuration
Tool can be started using absConfig.exe file. The tool opens up with a User Interface
that shows two tabs. The first tab called “Configure Attributes” can be used to
map AD attributes to the attribute fields for Office Communicator and also to specify
what users to include in ABS files based on specific filters. The second tab called
“Configure WMI” can be used to specify values for WMI settings and also to specify
the normalization rules to apply to the phone numbers for ABS files. The “Restore
Defaults” button can be used to restore all the ABS-related install time default
values.
If you get following
error while starting absconfig.exe :
Exception:
System.ArgumentOutofRangeException: Value of '6/20/2008 1:30:00 AM' is not valid
for 'Value'. 'Value' should be between 'MinDate' and 'MaxDate'.
Parameter name: Value
at System.Windows.Form.DateTimePicker.set_Value(DateTime value)
at ABSConfig.MainForm.WMIConfigInit()
Follow the kb…. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954749
As per this kb, you need
to contact Microsoft Support Center to get the hotfix. This hotfix contains the
new absconfig.exe file what you need to use.
ABS Configuration Tool
is part of resource kit. If you install the resource kit in 'C' drive, you will
find this tool (ABSConfig.exe) under following location.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications
Server 2007\ResKit
You need to double click ABSConfig.exe to start
it. By default following attributes will be checked. You can configure it as per
the requirement what suits your organization.
You can also apply include or exclude filters,
and you can also define what value of the phone number do you want to include in
the ABS files.
If you want to create address book files as
per OU (organizational Unit), you can do that as per following image. In addition
to that you can use this tool to configure following Synchronization time and Synchronization
time interval.
This tool can also be used to configure normalization
rules. Actually you cant create normalization rules using this tool but you can
specify any one of the following four options:
Apply both generic built-in-normalization rules
and company specific normalization rules.
Apply only generic built-in-normalization rules.
Apply only company-specific normalization rules.
Apply no rules.
You can also use this tool to specify to create
a delta file, if the ABS file is changed by specified percentage.
After making and applying the change in ABSConfig.exe,
run ABServer -syncnow command. It'll create a new Address Book file as per change
made by you. If you dont run ABServer -syncnow command, wait till the next scheduled
synchronization time.
Related Links:
ABSConfig.exe behaving unexpected
|
