Can't Search Company Contacts on Exchange

When I first set up my exchange account, I was able to search the company contacts without isssue (go to contacts>groups>search). However, lately, this has not been working. This was a useful feature and I would like to get it working again.
I have done both hard and soft resets. However, still not working. Each search I do ends in the same result - a message indicating that the search failed.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks

I have been having the exact same issues with my mail. Today I went into Mail > Preferences > Accounts
Click on "Edit Server list" under the Outgoing Mail Server
Click Advanced
Change the Autentication type (mine was set as NTLM)
By switching to "password" and using: exchange server/user name and my exchange password I got the outbound mail to work.
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