After upgrading from Exchange Server 2013 or 2016 to 2019, the address book download seems to give an error on offline address book download on Outlook desktop client. This issue happens because the Exchange Server 2019 Offline address book configuration on the Exchange server has incorrect server details and addresses book distribution. This can be resolved by enabling global web distribution and setting the virtual directory to null.

On the Outlook client when you expand the “send and receive group” drop-down and select download address book. You would see the popup something similar as below.

And you would see the error as below when you try to download. The error is

(0x8004010F): 'The operation failed. An object cannot be found.

This error can be resolved, and the offline address book can be downloaded by enabling global web distribution on the Exchange server using the Exchange management shell.

Run the below command to set the default offline address book with the command.

Get-Mailbox | Set-Mailbox -OfflineAddressBook "\Default Offline Address List"

Check the list of address books using the command below.

Get-offlineaddressbook

To resolve the above error run the command below to make the virtual directory to null. In this command, we are enabling global web distribution and shadow mailbox distribution as well.

Set-OfflineAddressBook -Identity "Default Offline Address Book" -VirtualDirectories $null -ShadowMailboxDistributionEnabled $true -GlobalWebDistributionEnabled $true

After running the above command restart the server. This will let the configuration changes to take effect on the Offline Address Book and the download error will be resolved. Test it on your outlook desktop client.

One of my clients wants to upgrade Exchange Server 2013 CU8 to Cu23. When preparing the server for upgrade and started upgrade and at the first step of the upgradation process the upgradation errors out with the following error and needed to exit from it. Error: ” was run: “Microsoft.Exchange.Data. Directory.ADOperationException:

Error:

The following error was generated when "$error.Clear(); 
	initialize-ExchangeConfigurationPermissions -DomainController $RoleDomainController

" was run: "Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADOperationException: Active Directory operation failed on OrgDC.domain.com. This error is not retriable. Additional information: Access is denied.
Active directory response: 00000005: SecErr: DSID-03152612, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data 0
 ---> System.DirectoryServices.Protocols.DirectoryOperationException: The user has insufficient access rights.
   at System.DirectoryServices.Protocols.LdapConnection.ConstructResponse(Int32 messageId, LdapOperation operation, ResultAll resultType, TimeSpan requestTimeOut, Boolean exceptionOnTimeOut)
   at System.DirectoryServices.Protocols.LdapConnection.SendRequest(DirectoryRequest request, TimeSpan requestTimeout)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.PooledLdapConnection.SendRequest(DirectoryRequest request, LdapOperation ldapOperation, Nullable`1 clientSideSearchTimeout, IActivityScope activityScope, String callerInfo)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADDataSession.ExecuteModificationRequest(ADObject entry, DirectoryRequest request, ADObjectId originalId, Boolean emptyObjectSessionOnException, Boolean isSync)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADDataSession.AnalyzeDirectoryError(PooledLdapConnection connection, DirectoryRequest request, DirectoryException de, Int32 totalRetries, Int32 retriesOnServer)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADDataSession.ExecuteModificationRequest(ADObject entry, DirectoryRequest request, ADObjectId originalId, Boolean emptyObjectSessionOnException, Boolean isSync)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADDataSession.SaveSecurityDescriptor(ADObject obj, RawSecurityDescriptor sd, Boolean modifyOwner)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.InitializeConfigPermissions.InternalProcessRecord()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.<ProcessRecord>b__b()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.InvokeRetryableFunc(String funcName, Action func, Boolean terminatePipelineIfFailed)"

Solution 1:

There are two ways to work around on this issue. You use the first work around when you don’t have the built-in administrator account access.

You need to launch Active Directory Users and Computers and, on the view menu, make your advanced features on the view menu is ticked.

Next, find the user that you are trying to install the exchange server with and open the properties and advanced settings on the security tab enable inheritance and click apply.

Also make sure the account you are tying to install CU is member following groups.

Enterprise Administrators

Schema Admins

Domain Admins

Organizational Management

Relaunch the CU upgrade setup and the error won’t be there in this time.

Solution 2:

Or if you have administrators account password with you, just login with administrator account and launch the CU installation setup.

Hope this would help someone.

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