I was asked to import over 1000 mail contacts which I was able to do... for the most part. However, as a certain number of contacts were already in the global address list, there were errors. This is because our mail contacts can have various statuses: Friend, Neighbor, Parent, etc. (just making those up, OK?) So, if a contact is already included as a "friend" (and located in the "Friends" OU), they cannot be imported again, at least not with the very same SMTP address, as a "neighbor" in the "Neighbors" OU. I want to output the operations that fill the screen of EMS as they are performed, but take up so much space that I can only see the last operations performed (first in, first out). So just to make sure I get all the errors listed, I want to output this to a file as well. Here's my script (just below). Import-CSV "F:\Scripts\NewContacts.csv" | ForEach { New-MailContact -Name $_.displayName -FirstName $_.givenName -LastName $_.sn -ExternalEmailAddress $_.mail -OrganizationalUnit "contoso.com/EmailContacts" } Where should I put... out-file C:\ImportOp1.txt ??? Inside brackets, right? And just at the end? But wait, I don't want PS to do this once for each entry. I want ONE .txt file displaying the overall results of the operation. So outside the brackets? Would test this myself on a practice server but only have a E2K3 machine available for the moment. Might try a small test group on the production server but thought I'd ask here too. Don't like "testing" too much on a production server...

Inside the curly braces you can add a semicolon to the end of the command that's in there and add a second command that executes afterward, or you can put the next command on the next line. However that Out-File won't do what you want it to do. What you want instead is the following. Import-CSV "F:\Scripts\NewContacts.csv" | ForEach { New-MailContact -Name $_.displayName -FirstName $_.givenName -LastName $_.sn -ExternalEmailAddress $_.mail -OrganizationalUnit "contoso.com/EmailContacts" 2>> C:\ImportOp1.txt } The 2>> operator redirects the error stream, in this case appending the file. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315283.aspx Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

Hi, Please update. ThanksSophia Xu

It looks like adding thousands of contacts to the GAL is not the best choice: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvradmin/thread/22fde8ad-4fc4-4bac-bb52-188c84ea5b63 But the answer will be useful for my scripting in the future.