Exchange 12 Offline Address List Issue

I'm continuing to use the Exchange 12 preview beta, with mostly good results. Everybody that sees the new Outlook Web Access loves it and wants it. Thus users will have a reason to upgrade and it won't be just us messaging engineers that care. Since Exchange 12 will require 64-bit hardware, having a greate user interface may help justify the cost to many organizations.

I had one no-connect issue, which I tracked down to a DNS issue between my Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller (ADI-DNS) and my Red Hat Federa Core 4 box running Bind 9.3.1. While I don't do secure dynamic updates to BIND (yet), I do secure transfers from AD to BIND. (When I make sure BIND knows AD is authoritative for my AD zone.) It's funny seeing all the Active Directory DNS records in BIND: _gc, _kerberos, _ldap, etc. (Which brings up a typical AD interview question: what version of BIND do you need to run AD? 8.6.3 is the minimum. BIND 9 is better because it won't make you set the don't check names option because it supports a wider character set for domain names.)

I recently set up an account for the lab here in AD for mail to forward to a couple of folks in Outlook 2003 on Windows 2000 SP4. This account is not an administrator on the local box, and it sends and receives mail fine, but on Send/Receive I get a

Task ‘Microsoft Exchange Server’ reported error (0x8004010F): ‘The operation failed. An object could not be found.’

Microsoft has a solution for Exchange 2003 here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=905813 ; but this isn't possible using the current Exchange 12 implementation. The error doesn't occur when I log on as a user with local admin privileges (yet). The server event logs don't show any errors. (I can grep my event logs because they go to my linux box via syslogd.)

I'm left with using the Exchange Management Shell's new-OfflineAddressBook command; first you must create an address list: "new-Addresslist." Fortunately, the shell features tab-command completion. All I have left to do is add addresses to my offline address list, but at least I have an offline address book, so my error should disappear, right? Wrong. I still get the error above. I'd fire up my Etherreal to do some more diagnosis, but I don't get the error on accounts wtih local admin privileges. Aargh.

Sometimes I miss the GUI.