Setting Exchange as default address book

I use only Exchange to store my email, contacts, and calendar data. Unfortunately, Address Book insists on also having it's "On My Mac" folder/account, which I can't seem to delete. I wouldn't care except that whenever I create a new contact (or "Add to Address Book" from within Mail), it automatically creates the contact within On My Mac, and not within my Exchange account where I keep all my contacts. It's a bit annoying having to go in and manually move the contact from On My Computer to my Exchange account.
Is there any way to set a "default" account within Address Book such that I can have it automatically use the Exchange one?
Dan

Problem solved:
Open Address Book
Hit Cmd+; or click Address Book \ Preferences
Click Accounts on the toolbar
Under the "On My Mac" account, change the setting for "Default account for new contacts".
That's it! So glad this setting is in here. A bit hard to find (I just stumbled upon it a few moments ago), but at least it's there.

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Application.ActiveExplorer().CurrentFolder
as Outlook.Folder;
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box, which is available by clicking Tools, and then Options in the Address
Book dialog box.
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Hi MattE,
Does it happen for each Outlook profile you have, from every user account which is on Cached Mode.
A.If not then I believe OAB copy is either corrupted or Out of date.
Checking it on OWA would confirm the actual GAL data.(Similar to Online Exchange)
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1.In Outlook 2010, select the File tab in the upper left corner, then Download Address Book from the Account Settings drop down menu.
Outlook 2007 users should select Tools from Outlooks uppermost menu, then Send/Receive and Download Address Book from the Tools drop down menus.
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Note The default setting on the Exchange computer is to generate an offline address book differential file every morning at 04:00. For a change that is made in Active Directory to reach the client computer, the following events must occur:•The change must be picked up by the Exchange computer that generates the offline address book files. This can take several hours. At worst, it can take 24 hours. This variable will be referred to as "x."
•The Outlook clients must download the offline address book updates every 24 hours. This update can take several hours. At worst, it can take 24 hours. This variable will be referred to as "y."
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EMC > Organization configuration > Mailbox > Offline address book.
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Here is a old times article I like:
Offline Address List Generation Overview
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dgoldman/archive/2005/03/31/overview-of-the-oabgen-process.aspx
One More Old but relevant:
Administering the offline address book in Outlook
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841273
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On the client Mac, how can I check the fully qualified address of my server to ensure I am entering the correct address in the >Address Book Wizard when creating the new account (can I not use the static IP address of the server)?
Open the Terminal window on your client Mac and type *dig [name of your server]* and check that it returns the IP address of your server. Then type *dig -x [ip address of your server] and check it returns the name of your server e.g. server.domain.com
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server.bumfodder.com. 37694 IN A 95.130.103.213
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;; WHEN: Mon Sep 20 07:46:43 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 54
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; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> -x 95.130.103.213
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25816
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;213.103.130.95.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR
;; ANSWER SECTION:
213.103.130.95.in-addr.arpa. 38400 IN PTR server.bumfodder.com.
;; Query time: 36 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Sep 20 07:47:46 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 79
<div class="jive-quote">On the server, I have created, and started, the Address Book Server service. What should I enter in the Authentication > >Host Name please? The manual says "It should be a fully qualified domain name matched with a reverse lookup record". >How can I check I have got this correct?
In the above example - you would put server.bumfodder.com

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