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Comment on Updated! Upload Hundreds of Contacts into your Exchange 2007 in 8 simple steps -

Johan Dreyer — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 04:22:33 GMT

Hi Lee,

Glad you found it helpful & straight forward.

The best advice i can give you is to start by using CSVDE to export a contact object with all the desired fields filled in - this will give you the necessary table structure & field names for the info you want to fill. (I would suggest using a dummy contact)

Once you have this file, you can delete the dummy contact then using exchange powershell, just type the cmdlets that i call in the script to create / update the proprties, you can find every switch for the command by pressing TAB after a "-".

Alternatively, you can refer to the Exchange Help for the cmdlet which you are running, there should be a list of possible switches.

Once you have these, you just need to ensure the table exists and then add the switch to the script file with the value $_.<CSVColumnName> as the input for the switch.

It should work for you.

Regards,

Johan

Comment on Updated! Upload Hundreds of Contacts into your Exchange 2007 in 8 simple steps -

Lee — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:32:58 GMT

I think your script is the most straight forward of what I have found on the net. Could you direct me to where I can find the hooks to expand your script to use more of the available AD fields. I want to move our public folder contacts over to AD, but I want to maintain as much of the info as possible (multiple phone number, the address, notes, etc...). Thank you.

Comment on Import Bulk Contacts into Exchange 2003

Data Recovery — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:46:29 GMT

Nice! Thanks for this tool! Importing contacts one by one is definitely a hassle and I could use the time I will save to do more productive, important things. Thanks again!

Comment on Import Bulk Contacts into Exchange 2003

Johan Dreyer — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:49:18 GMT

Your choice for sure, however, just think that this isn't doing anything other than using the native capabilities of the technologies already deployed and their management tools and, ofcourse, you should have anti-malware software deployed on all of your enterprise servers to protect from such risks anyway.

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Comment on Import Contacts into Exchange 2007 using CSV

printer ink — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:16:30 GMT

that's great information. I really like it. Thanks for this useful information

Comment on Import Bulk Contacts into Exchange 2003

Managed IT Services Melbourne — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:17:05 GMT

Thanks for the tip - I think I will wait until there are a few more guarantees/safety measures associated with it. Looks like a great way to catch a virus to me.

Comment on Import Contacts into Exchange 2007 using CSV

Johan Dreyer — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:49:59 GMT

Hi,

The Files contain basic plain text and standard VB / Powershell commands which are available anywhere on the web so would be readily accessible to a hacker in any case.

They also require local access to the network which they are run against and should be run from a computer that is a domain member, has the exchange management tools installed and using an account with appropriate priviledges to create objects in AD and email enable those objects (in this case Contacts.)

All in all, it may be possible to use it as a hacking tool, but in my own opinion, unlikely.

Comment on Import Contacts into Exchange 2007 using CSV

computer hacking — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:23:32 GMT

Thanks for the detailed instructions on how to do this! A lot of small businesses use bulk contacts/mailing lists, and this comes in handy. I am concerned about computer hacking though with this type of file - do you have thoughts on that?

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Phphi — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:55:01 GMT

Why on earth would you consider isolated tenancy? You may as well set up your own Virtualized Environment, in fact that's probably what you're talking about isn't it?

The whole point of multi-tenant, is that it's infinitely scalable, so negating the need to worry the usual confinement issues like hardware upgrades etc. The true SaaS model can only exist in a multi-tenant environment, otherwise you're just providing dedicated hosting; welcome to the world of ASP failures from yester-year.

Jeepers man, this is 2010, not 1990.