Hello,we need to reorganize our mail contacts (~ 5000) and migrate them to Exchange 2007 from multiple sources, based on the following rules: FULL contact info will be available in a CSV file in order to bulk import them The Default E-mail Policy should NOT get applied to Mail Contacts (by default, our Default Policy applies an e-mail address of @accepted.domain to new mail users, however we do not want this to happen in the case of external contacts since the generated e-mail addresses will be useless) After investigating the above in Exchange 2007, I have noticed the following: the 'import-csv' script (http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/09/18/428950.aspx) only imports the basic contact information. We need our contacts to have FULL info (e.g. company, tel, fax, address, etc.) - which the New-MailContact cmdlet does not provide. All this info can be updated using the Set-Contact cmdlet but I don't know if a nested script could do this and how to write a nested script to do this. I know I can use -EmailAddressPolicyEnabledfalse in order to disable the application of the Default Policy - however this does not solve the problem since we would still have to manually (?) remove the SMTP addresses applied to each contact at its creation time Based on the above, I would like to ask whichthe best practice to achieve the bulk import is. Do you think we should create some nested Exchange script OR import the contacts in AD with all their info and then mail-enable them in Exchange 2007? If the latter is chosen, are there any cmdlets available in order to achieve this? Additionally, I would like to ask if there is a list of all validations Exchange 2007 does in imported contacts (e.g. alias length in characters,permitted characters in telephone numbers, etc.) that will help us create the initial CSV contact file. Thanks in advance, Yannis

Had the same problem. I solved it by submiting -firstname -lastname parameters to cmdlet. It seems that if these parameters are missed only alias based smtp addresses are generated.. Good luck. R.