Of course!  CSVDE imports only what you provide.

Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Time Magazine's Person of the Year! 
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Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 8:49 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: Contact Validation...

I used the CSVDE method, since that's the closest to what I am familiar
with...coming from Ex5.5.

Do you also need to know what fields I imported?  If so, it'll have to wait
until Monday.

Jim

On 3/16/07, Ed Crowley [MVP] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You didn't tell us how you did this import.  I suspect that your 
> method has left a critical Active Directory attribute out of the 
> import that Exchange uses to determine that the contact is 
> mail-enabled.  If you can provide more information of your process 
> perhaps one of us can suggest what you might have left out.
>
> Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
> Time Magazine's Person of the Year!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim 
> Blunt
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:54 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: Contact Validation...
>
> Hey Folks,
>
> You folks have been excellent about steering me in the right direction 
> during this NT4.0/Ex5.5 --> AD2003/E2k3 migration.  Everything has 
> gone fairly smoothly and most of the kinks have been worked out of the
system.
> However, I have one last question that I was wondering if anyone 
> could/would help me with.
>
> Yesterday, I figured out how to do an import of all the Contacts from 
> a certain company...11,053 of them to be exact.  They all look good in 
> the AD, they're in the correct OU, and they're all formatted the way I
want them.
> However, I've hit one little snag.
>
> In order for a customer to see that Contact in the GAL, I have to 
> validate the e-mail address first.  Is there a way to do a mass e-mail 
> address validation, either as part of the import process or after I 
> get them imported??  If I select them all and select the Exchange 
> Tasks option, the Validate option doesn't come up...just the Delete
Address option.
>
> Currently, I have to highlight one Contact, select "Exchange 
> Tasks...", select "Validate E-mail Address", click Next twice and 
> Finish once.  There's no way I have time to do this for 11,000+ Contacts,
one at a time.
>
> If anyone can help me with this, I would appreciate it.  I have two 
> more Contact list imports to go, both of which are twice this size.
>
> Environment:  AD2003 Native / Exchange 2003 Native
> Hardware:  1 FE, 1 BE, 1 SMTP/Encryption/Index Server
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Blunt
>
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