Outlook Connector - Address book - Global Address List

Using Outlook Connector version 7.2.402.1 on both Outlook 2003 and 2007 I am having an issue when trying to view the Global Address List. The vertical scroll bar doesn't activate unless I resize my Address Book window. Even after that it doesn't work that well. It is very erratic.
I have set up a VLV index for the Address book as follows:
dn: cn=outlook_connector_browsing_index,cn=xyz,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config
cn: outlook_connector_browsing_index
objectclass: top
objectclass: vlvSearch
vlvbase: o=xyz.edu,dc=xyz,dc=edu
vlvfilter: (&(mail=*)(cn=*))
vlvscope: 2
dn: cn=Sort cn,cn=outlook_connector_browsing_index,cn=xyz,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config
cn: Sort cn
objectclass: top
objectclass: vlvIndex
vlvenabled: 1
vlvsort: cn
Doing a tail -f on the access log while using the Address Book I can see the VLV index being used. Is there something buggy with the Outlook Connector or is there something I missed in the VLV index?
Thanks,
Scott

karl.rossing wrote:
It does not seem to work with SSL connections. When Outlook starts up, I get an error that it cannot connect the address book server.I was able to find the following that may be a cause for your problem:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite/Connector+for+Microsoft+Outlook+7.3+Release+Notes
6228253 : Login to Address Book server fails through Outlook.
Users are unable to log into the Address Book server though Outlook if the Address Book (in Communications Express) is in SSL mode.
Workaround: Open Communications Express within Internet Explorer and permanently accept the self-signed certificate.In this case instead of Communications Express, you would log into Convergence using the SSL path (https://server.domain.com/iwc) and permanently accept the certificate.
Regards,
Shane.

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