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

no to exchange as explained above. I need to add multiple email addresses to each contact for example to contact1 I need to joe@someone.com and joe@someone.de

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:28:10 +0000, CBrook1234 wrote: >no to exchange as explained above. Contact objects, mail-enabled or otherwise, are objects in the Active Directory. >I need to add multiple email addresses to each contact for example to contact1 I need to joe@someone.com and joe@someone.de Then use the get-mailcontact and set-mailcontact. For example: $a=(get-mailcontact aaaaa).emailaddresses $a += 'x@x.y' set-mailcontact aaaaa -emailaddresses $a --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

I would like to add multiple external email addresses does anyone happen to know if this is possible through the shell and if so then how?

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:28:23 +0000, CBrook1234 wrote: >I would like to add multiple external email addresses does anyone happen to know if this is possible through the shell and if so then how? Do you mean you want to add mail-enabled Contacts to the Active Directory? New-MailContact Enable-MailContact Set-MailContact --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP