How to Mail-Enable Multiple Existing Contacts

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 will reach end of support on April 11, 2017. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.

Applies to: Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Exchange Server 2007 SP2, Exchange Server 2007 SP3

This topic explains how to use the Exchange Management Shell to mail-enable multiple existing contacts in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. This procedure mail-enables existing contact objects in the Active Directory directory service by populating their Exchange attributes (such as the contact's alias and external e-mail address).

To mail-enable existing contacts, at a minimum you must provide external e-mail addresses. When mail-enabling several contacts in bulk, it is easier to first export the list of contacts to a .csv file, and then add the external e-mail addresses to the .csv file by using a text editor such as Notepad, or a spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Office Excel. You can then use the updated .csv file in your bulk mail-enabling operation.

Before You Begin

To perform this procedure, the account you use must be delegated the following:

• Exchange Recipient Administrator role

For more information about permissions, delegating roles, and the rights that are required to administer Exchange 2007, see Permission Considerations.

Procedure

To use the Exchange Management Shell to mail-enable multiple existing contacts

1. To export the list of existing contacts in your organization that are not mail-enabled to a .csv file, run the following command.

   Get-Contact | Out-File "C:\ContactsList.CSV"
   

2. The resulting .csv file will be similar to the following:

   #TYPE System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject,
   Name
   Kim Abercrombie
   Don Hall
   Sanjay Patel
   Amy Rusko
   ...
   

3. For each contact, add a column heading and the external e-mail addresses to the .csv file. The updated .csv file should look similar to the following:

   #TYPE System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject,
   Name,ExternalAddress
   Kim Abercrombie,Kim@contoso.com
   Don Hall,Don@fabrikam.com
   Sanjay Patel,Sanjay@fabrikam.com
   Amy Rusko,Amy@contoso.com
   ...
   

4. To import and use the data in the .csv file so you can mail-enable the contacts in bulk, run the following command.

   Import-CSV "C:\Contacts.CSV" | ForEach-Object {Enable-MailContact -Identity $_.Name -ExternalEmailAddress $_.ExternalAddress}
   

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-Contact and Enable-MailContact reference topics.

For More Information

For more information about the Exchange Management Shell, see Using the Exchange Management Shell.

For more information about pipelining in the Exchange Management Shell, see Pipelining.

For more information about exporting data to text files, see Working with Command Output.