How to Download the Offline Address Book Manually

To download the offline address book manually, perform the following procedure.

Procedure

In Outlook, in the Tools menu, click Send/Receive, and then click Download Address Book.
To retrieve only the changes since the last download, select Download changes since last Send/Receive. For details, see the following figure. If this check box is not selected, the full offline address book will be downloaded. If this is the first time for the download, the full download will still occur.

Offline address book dialog box in Outlook, with the Full Details option selected
Click the type of download you want, Full Details or No Details. Full Details is recommended, and is configured with Cached Exchange Mode by default.

Note

By default, Classic Offline Mode uses "No Details" offline address book.

For more information about the attributes that are downloaded, see "User Attributes Stored in Offline Address Book Files" in Setting Up Servers to Support Offline Address Books.
If the offline address book has been generated to include multiple address lists, click Choose address book to select an address list.