LOL. I definitely won't remove or try to break the functionality. That is definitely a very popular function as I am hearing about all sorts of people doing migrations with it.
The newer version is already posted on the web site. A more formal announcement of it and oldcmp will be coming later the week. A joeware christmas present to admins everywhere. :oP I think the exchmbx and oldcmp changes will be well received. :o) The change from using cdoexm for most of exchmbx will take a bit. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coleman, Hunter Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 9:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Import Contacts into AD Joe- Whatever changes you make to ExchMbx, *please* don't break the move mailbox functionality. It's saving my arse on a 5.5 upgrade :-) Cheers, Hunter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 7:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Import Contacts into AD Blah CDOEXM is bloated and should be used as little as possible until MS fixes it. :o) Plus if you don't use CDOEXM you have the option to use a workstation that doesn't have the Exchange tools and ISN'T a member of the forest where the Exchange Org resides. I am going through and converting all of the ExchMbx functions to use non-CDOEXM methods. The only one I can't figure out yet is move mailbox which may not be possible unfortunately. Everything else is doable in ExchMbx and in fact, you can't even create mail enabled QB DLs using CDOEXM, but you will be able to through ExchMbx. Anyway, the quick glance at the script makes me say the same thing I said before... He isn't setting targetAddress. This is kind of dangerous actually because MS documented (Q296479) that as being a requirement on mail-enabled users/contacts but if you don't set it, the RUS will still go through the actions and try to mail enable it but will miss displayName and legacyExchangeDN which putsthe objects in an odd state. A quick glance and you might think the object is ready, when in fact it isn't. BTW, if you already have non-exchange-enabled contacts in the directory and you want to exchange enable them there is a new switch in the version of exchmbx I released this last weekend called -keepmail that will keep the old mail attribute and use it as the targetAddress when the contact is mailenabled. I received quite a few requests for that. There are several other changes as well. I will probably send a note to the list separately describing them as well as changes in the new public version of oldcmp that will be released probably this weekend. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mulnick, Al Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 9:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Import Contacts into AD Personally, I think I'd use a different method to create those contacts. CDOEXM was made for this sort of stuff. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/e2k3/e2 k3/_ cdo_imailrecipient_mailenable.asp Al -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Saleem, Mohamed Yunus Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 5:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Import Contacts into AD Hello all Below is the script I am using to import contacts. I am successful in doing so. But after few minutes all the email ([EMAIL PROTECTED])addresses of the contacts change to my email addresses([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I am surprised why this is happening. I am suscpecting that the default policy of exchange is changing the email domain address. Anyone has bulk imported external contacts into AD. Please forward the information or script. I will thank you all in advance. Option Explicit Dim objExcel, strExcelPath, objSheet Dim strLast, strFirst, strMiddle, strDisplay, intRow, intCol Dim strGroupDN, objUser, objGroup, objContainer Dim strCN, strNTName, strContainerDN Dim strHomeFolder, strHomeDrive, objFSO, objShell Dim intRunError, strNetBIOSDomain, strDNSDomain, objDomain Dim objRootDSE, objTrans, strLogonScript, strUPN Dim strDepartment, strOffice, strDescription, strPhone Dim strMail, strMailAlias ' Specify spreadsheet. strExcelPath = "d:\MYSCRIPTS\contacts2.xls" ' Specify DN of container where contacts created. strContainerDN = "OU=CONTACTS" Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") ' Determine DNS domain name from RootDSE object. Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE";) strDNSDomain = objRootDSE.Get("DefaultNamingContext") Set objDomain = GetObject("LDAP://"; & strDNSDomain) ' Open spreadsheet. Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application") 'On Error Resume Next objExcel.Workbooks.Open strExcelPath If Err.Number <> 0 Then On Error GoTo 0 Wscript.Echo "Unable to open spreadsheet " & strExcelPath Wscript.Quit End If On Error GoTo 0 Set objSheet = objExcel.ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets(1) ' Bind to container where users to be created. 'On Error Resume Next Set objContainer = GetObject("LDAP://"; & strContainerDN & "," & strDNSDomain) If Err.Number <> 0 Then On Error GoTo 0 Wscript.Echo "Unable to bind to container: " & strContainerDN Wscript.Quit End If On Error GoTo 0 ' Start with row 2 of spreadsheet. ' Assume first row has column headings. intRow = 2 ' Read each row of spreadsheet until a blank value ' encountered in column 1 (the column for cn). ' For each row, create CONTACT and set attribute values. Do while objSheet.Cells(intRow, 1).Value <> "" ' Read values from spreadsheet for this user. strFirst = Trim(objSheet.Cells(intRow, 4).Value) strMiddle = Trim(objSheet.Cells(intRow, 5).Value) strLast = Trim(objSheet.Cells(intRow, 6).Value) strDisplay = Trim(objSheet.Cells(intRow, 3).Value) strCN = Trim(objSheet.Cells(intRow, 1).Value) strMail= Trim(objSheet.Cells(intRow,7).Value) strMailAlias = Trim(objSheet.Cells(intRow,8).Value) strDescription = Trim(objSheet.Cells(intRow,9).Value) strOffice = Trim(objSheet.Cells(intRow,10).Value) 'strPhone = Trim(objSheet.Cells(intRow,11).Value) strDepartment = Trim(objSheet.Cells(intRow,12).Value) ' Create contact. 'On Error Resume Next Set objUser = objContainer.Create("contact", "cn=" & strCN) If Err.Number <> 0 Then On Error GoTo 0 Wscript.Echo "Unable to create contact with cn: " & strCN Else On Error GoTo 0 ' Assign other attributes and save contact object. If strFirst <> "" Then objUser.givenName = strFirst End If ' Assign values to remaining attributes. If strMiddle <> "" Then objUser.initials = strMiddle End If If strLast <> "" Then objUser.sn = strLast End If If strDisplay <> "" Then objUser.displayName = strDisplay End If If strMail <> "" Then objUser.mail = strMail End If If strMailAlias <> "" Then objUser.mailNickname = strMailAlias End If If strDescription <> "" Then objUser.description = strDescription End If If strOffice <> "" Then objUser.physicalDeliveryOfficeName = strOffice End If 'If strPhone <> "" Then 'objUser.telephoneNumber = strPhone 'End If If strDepartment <> "" Then objUser.department = strDepartment End If objUser.SetInfo If Err.Number <> 0 Then On Error GoTo 0 Wscript.Echo "Unable to set attributes for contact with cn: " & strCN End If End if ' Increment to next user. intRow = intRow + 1 Loop Wscript.Echo "Import of Contacts Completed" ' Clean up. objExcel.ActiveWorkbook.Close objExcel.Application.Quit Set objUser = Nothing Set objGroup = Nothing Set objContainer = Nothing Set objSheet = Nothing Set objExcel = Nothing Set objFSO = Nothing Set objShell = Nothing Set objTrans = Nothing Set objRootDSE = Nothing -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 5:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Import Contacts into AD Did you try to make these exchange enabled contacts? If so did you populate the mail attribute or targetaddress? Sounds like the mail attribute. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Saleem, Mohamed Yunus Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 6:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Import Contacts into AD Hello People I imported contacts into my AD using excel sheet containing 361 rows and 10 columns (details of all the users sent by admin from another domain) What happened was after the import the email address of the contacts is not the same as in the excel sheet sent by the admin, instead it changes back to my domain email id. Has anyone come across this situation, please help If anyone has a script which does this..please forward it to me. 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