Hello, when I had Exchange 2003, I would use Active Directory to add email contacts, and it was quick and easy (right click, Exchange Tasks, New Mailbox, done). But with 2010, I have to fire up the Exchange Management Console, and use the New Mail Contact "wizard" which takes way too long if I have to enter in more than 1 contact. And it doesn't even give me the option to modify fields like address or phone numbers- I still have to go back to AD and add those in. Isn't there a better way to add email contacts??? Thanks :) Max

Hello, when I had Exchange 2003, I would use Active Directory to add email contacts, and it was quick and easy (right click, Exchange Tasks, New Mailbox, done). But with 2010, I have to fire up the Exchange Management Console, and use the New Mail Contact "wizard" which takes way too long if I have to enter in more than 1 contact. And it doesn't even give me the option to modify fields like address or phone numbers- I still have to go back to AD and add those in. Isn't there a better way to add email contacts??? Thanks :) Max There is much easier and faster way to create mail contacts in bulk using the Exchange Powershell commands like New-MailContact: New-MailContact -Name "Chris Ashton" -ExternalEmailAddress "Chris@tailspintoys.com" -OrganizationalUnit "Marketing" http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124519.aspx After creating it you can call Set-MailContact http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995950.aspx You can have a CSV File where u can have Name,ExternalEmailAddress [or some other attributes] and then can create all mail contacts using the CSV file like this Import-CSV "C:\TestFile.csv" | Foreach{New-MailContact -Name $_.Name -ExternalEmailAddress $_.ExternalEmailAddress -OrganizationalUnit "Marketing"} For setting address and phone numbers u will have to use Set-Contact http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124535.aspx Hope this help u. Regards, Laeeq Qazi|Team Lead(Exchange + Sharepoint + BES + DynamicsCRM) www.HostingController.com

Thanks for the reply. I have seen the powershell commands, but it seems that it still requires the same amount of time to do as with the wizard. I still would need to manually input -Name, First Name, Last Name, Alias, External Email, and OU for every single mail contact. If the OU is different on the contacts, then I can't use a CSV, so I'd have to copy/paste every single line into the command shell. Then, I'd still have to go back again and create a new command to add phone number, address, etc, for each contact. It really seems that they made it much more difficult and time consuming :P