We've recently installed an new Exchange 2013 server.
Now our mac clients complain about the following issue:

When they open their address book and look in all contacts they see an awful list of suggested contacts. However, these contacts are only seen in the mac adressbook, not on mobile devices, outlook pc, outlook for mac, not in OWA.
But they get synced, because people with multiple mac, do see the same list, and when we delete one of these contacts it's deleted on the other mac adress book too.

The list is only viewable when you look in All Contacts. No if you just look in you Exchange addres book.
We've investigated this issue and found out that other clienst who are on office365 and have been switched to the "new 2013 layout" have the same issue....

We think it's related to the sugggested contact group, but that is not availble anymore in 2013 so we can't delete it.

Hello,

Could you explain more detailed information on mac address book.

The suggested contacts has been removed in exchange 2013.

I recommend you create a profile to check the result.

Since the issue only occurs on mac clients, I recommend you post your issue to mac forum.

http://www.mac-forums.com/

Hi Cara,

This is what happens:
I've 1 exchange account in apple mail / apple address book nothing more...
Every time when I reply on an email that was send from an address that was not in my address book it saves the address in All Contacts.
This list is synchronized to other apple mail clients with the same exchange account.

But more happens: I delete these auto generated addresses they come back after a while (even if i do not email back)

I know it's only on mail desktop issue, but for some reasons it's syncing with the exchange server so that's why i posted it here also.
I know suggested contacts is not in 2013 anymore, but that's the issue: something is syncing and i can't get it away.

As far as is can see, it only happens with exchange 2013 accounts and office365 accounts with the new layout...
I tested also an imap account and could not reproduce the problem

So this is the answer? The syncing only happens on mac so go to the mac forum?

Something is syncing with the exchange server...
I'm very interested to know what it is.