Last week a community peer asked me on Facebook to assist him with a challenge.
His issue was that he had imported contacts into Active Directory by using a tool named “ldifde”. This tool also filled in the email address on the contact object in Active Directory.
But, he wanted to mail-enable them within Microsoft Exchange Server and set the mail address filled in the ‘Email address’ attached to the contact as the external mail address.
Since we’re talking about 2000+ contacts, this is not something you want to do by clicking… so we turned to PowerShell.Image may be NSFW.
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And here’s the PowerShell oneliner to do this.
Get-Contact -RecipientTypeDetails Contact -Filter ‘WindowsEmailAddress -ne $null’ | foreach { enable-mailcontact -Identity $_ -ExternalEmailAddress $_.WindowsEmailAddress.toString() }
Note that this command will search through your entire AD… use the –OrganizationalUnit parameter to search more specific. Image may be NSFW.
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Now, this command took about 15 minutes to run… for about 2300 contacts. A lot better compared to clicking them manually, right? Image may be NSFW.
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Note: Getting an error stating that the “Get-Contact” cmdlet is unknown? Be sure that you’re a member of the “Exchange View-Only Administrators” group!
