Hi i have used Exchange Management shell for creating bulk users in exchnage 2007 and it worked perfectly. now i wanted to create bulk users in exchange 2010 SP1 with the same commands but error comes templateinstance not found. i used CSV file that contains Name,FirstName,LastName,OU,UPN,Alias in Exchange 2007 and i also use the same format in Exchange 2010 SP1 i created one user tempalte101 in exchange 2007 $Template=Get-Mailbox template101 $Temp=ConvertTo-Securestring 12345678 -AsplainText -Force Import-CSV C:\users.csv | ForEach-Object -Process {New-Mailbox -Name $_.Name -FirstName $_.FirstName -LastName $_.LastName -OrganizationalUnit $_.OU -UserPrincipalName $_.UPN -Alias $_.alias -Database "Name of database" -Password $Temp -TemplateInstance $Template} The above command works perfectly in exchange 2007 when i run these commands in exchange 2010 with anothet CSV file and user template102 with same format it shows error that templateinstance command not found. I create users directly in Exchange it does not exist in Active Directory it works in exchange 2007. Regards, Devang Patel

Hi, The TemplateInstance parameter is not supported in Exchange 2010. You may use any one as follows: Import-CSV C:\users.csv | ForEach-Object -Process {New-Mailbox -Name $_.Name -FirstName $_.FirstName -LastName $_.LastName -OrganizationalUnit $_.OU -UserPrincipalName $_.UPN -Alias $_.alias -Database "Name of database" -Password $Password} Import-CSV C:\users.csv | ForEach-Object -Process {New-Mailbox -Name $_.Name -FirstName $_.FirstName -LastName $_.LastName -OrganizationalUnit $_.OU -UserPrincipalName $_.UPN -Alias $_.alias -Database "Name of database" -Password (ConvertTo-SecureString $_.password -AsPlainText -Force)} Regards from www.windowsadmin.info

Hi I have entered below commands with CSV file as below Name,Fname,Lname,OU,UPN,Alias,Department Rocky Patel,Rocky,Ppgp11,xxxx/xxxx/xxxx/xxxx/btech07,rocky.ppgp11@xxx.xx.xx,Rockyppgp11,Student [PS] C:\Windows\system32>$Temp=ConvertTo-Securestring 12345678 -AsPlainText -Force [PS] C:\Windows\system32>Import-Csv C:\rocky.csv | ForEach-Object -Process {New-Mailbox -Name $_.Name -FirstName $_.Fnam e -LastName $_.Lname -OrganizationalUnit $_.OU -UserPrincipalName $_.UPN -Alias $_.Alias -Database "Database Name" -Passw ord $Temp} | Set-User -Department $_.department [PS] C:\Windows\system32> The Command runs successfully but it doesnt show user rocky in btech07 OU in Active Directory. xxxx i have not mentioned because it is our domain details. Regards, Devang Patel

Hi Are running Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosted environment. When i try to run this in EMS i get this error message: Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Alias'. The argument is null or empty. Supply an argument that is not null or em pty and then try the command again. + CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [New-Mailbox], ParameterBindingValidationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,New-Mailbox My .CSV file looks like this Import-CSV c:\temp\bulk_exch.csv | ForEach-Object -Process{New-Mailbox -Alias $_.Alias -Name $_.Name -UserPrincipalName $_.UPN -Organization $_.Organization -FirstName $_.FN -LastName $_.LN -DisplayName $_.DispName} My .PS1 file looks like this Alias;Name;UPN;Organization;FN;LN;DispName test;Test Man;test.man@test.domain.com;test.domain.com;Test;Man;Test Man Anybody has a solution for this?

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:12:17 +0000, nPulz wrote: > > >Hi > >Are running Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosted environment. > >When i try to run this in EMS i get this error message: Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Alias'. The argument is null or empty. Supply an argument that is not null or em >pty and then try the command again. > + CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [New-Mailbox], ParameterBindingValidationException > + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,New-Mailbox > >My .CSV file looks like this Import-CSV c:\temp\bulk_exch.csv | ForEach-Object -Process{New-Mailbox -Alias $_.Alias -Name $_.Name -UserPrincipalName $_.UPN -Organization $_.Organization -FirstName $_.FN -LastName $_.LN -DisplayName $_.DispName}My .PS1 file looks like this Alias;Name;UPN;Organization;FN;LN;DispName >test;Test Man;test.man@test.domain.com;test.domain.com;Test;Man;Test Man > >Anybody has a solution for this? Replace the semicolons in the file with commas? It isn't a Semicolon Separated Value file that the import-csv cmdlet works with. :-) --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Sorry for the mix-up, think i was fast copy-paste the .csv and .ps1 file. They are opposite of what i posted. And found out that Excell 2010 did save the .csv file with semicolons.