When using the ABSConfig tool do not click on teh Restore defaults button. Microsoft has not updated the code on this button to reflect the database changes in lync 2010. It will reset your database to a OCS configuration.
Rob Young
31 Jan 2011 8:51 PM
Ken Rhoades
3 Feb 2011 5:42 PM
How would I configure it so that the Lync address book only shows the internal employees, and nothing from the users contact lists or other address books?
If I set it to "Only Include users that have a value for this AD attribute", and map company=companyname, what type of attribute is valid? Group is already used by default.
Jamie Schwinn
10 Feb 2011 7:46 PM
Rob Young is correct. I blew up an ABS by clicking the Restore Defaults button. I wrote a SQL script to restore the Lync default ABS config. Blog post coming soon...
DrRez
10 Feb 2011 10:46 PM
Thanks everyone, we have notified the developer of the tool and are looking into this issue.
Tracy Zheng
11 Feb 2011 12:30 AM
This issue is known issue. Fix is on the way
Jamie Schwinn
11 Feb 2011 1:58 PM
Until the fix is available, I created a SQL script to restore Lync ABS default configuration.
waveformation.com/.../restore-lync-abs-default-configuration
Jed Ellerby
15 Feb 2011 11:06 AM
Does the absconfig work at all on Lync 2010?
I enabled IP phone and Other phone and it seemed to mess up the contact phone entries. Given the reset to defaults is broken it seems likely that some of the other options may also be broken. I've had to run Jamie's script to refix the issue (nice nice Jamie).
Russ Wilton
18 Feb 2011 4:10 PM
I was about 15 seconds away from clicking the Restore defaults, when I stumbled across this posting. What's really frustrating is that we were using the tool during troublehooting under the guidance of PSS as we were working on some normalization that wasn't behaving as expected.
B4Z
26 Mar 2011 12:36 PM
I experienced the same issue and raised a support call regarding this with Microsoft. I have created a blog post detailing the resolution I was given by PSS.
soder
12 Jun 2011 10:49 PM
I believe 4 months should have already been enough to fix this stupid bug. The tool is still online without any warning on the download page that it will mess the whole deployment if you dare to click on that restore button anytime. Nice job!
Eric
19 Oct 2011 9:09 PM
As of CU3 this is still not fixed. We just blew up an address book with this. The fix given by B4Z worked great.
15 Mar 2012 11:49 PM
Here's a recent blog post from Lasse Nordvik Wedø on Tech@Work on this issue: tech.rundtomrundt.com/.../lync-address-book-can-show-different.html .
12 May 2012 3:18 AM
Folks, as it now states at the top of this post: The ABSConfig.exe has been updated. The update resolves an issue where the ABSConfig.exe tool does not save changes. For a description of the update see "The ABSConfig.exe tool does not save the most recent changes in Lync Server 2010" at support.microsoft.com/.../2672934. Thanks!