Importing contacts from AD into Exchange 2007

There were quite a few things that I had to do in order to get this to work.

Here’s a few commands, then I’ll provide links to all of the places that helped write the commands.

Cmd prompt: (this command exports every contact in your AD Domain into a csv file called, “onlycontacts.csv”)

CSVDE -f onlycontacts.csv -r “(&(objectClass=contact)(objectCategory=person))”

Then in EMC, run: (obviously, this Imports contacts from the previous CSV file, and puts them in as contacts in Exchange.)

Import-Csv onlycontacts.csv | ForEach { New-MailContact -Name $_.displayName -Firstname $_.FirstName -LastName $_.LastName -ExternalEmailAddress $_.Mail -OrganizationalUnit “somethinggoeshere” }

New-MailContact

CSVDE -f Export examples user accounts from Active Directory to spreadheet

How to use Csvde to import contacts and user objects into Active Directory