I hope someone can help :) Background Info Server 03, Exchange 07. Two seperate Domains \ Exchange Organizations Issue... I have a fully working "live" Exchange 2007 environment, everything works how it should minus trying to create mail enabled contacts that i have imported I am importing into my AD a list of users/groups/d lists/contacts from another exchange organization, i am doing this using a mixture of CSVDE and LDF. This works fine and it creates everything in AD and matches what we have in the other organization The problem comes around when trying to get mail enabled contacts into the pre existing GAL It is populating all the "hidden" LDAP fields that i am aware of which make this work. These fields were tested by creating a contact in the exchange console then importing it out to see what i actually had to fill in. What i need is some sort of help or direction as AD is filled in correctly however i still have to run the create new contact wizard everytime and then fill in the "missing" SMTP address which is already in AD Is there a way i can get exchange to pick this up and create it automatically. I am well open to using the management shell\powershell to achieve this (it seems the way forward) If you need any more information please ask and i will supply ASAP

Yes as long as you have the required exchange attributes it's basically provisioned by Exchange. I have a feeling that you're missing the targetaddress attribute when creating the contact via CSVDE or LDF.James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

Thanks for the fast reply, i will try this tomorrow while back in work. I assume i dont have to run any commands to make it appear exchange will just do it itself? This means i suppose i will have to get them to change the data they are exporting to me to include the target address attribute and pull that into AD Will exchange just create the contacts for me? or do i still have to go through the wizard to actually "enable" the already enabled (ad) user If the targetaddress attribute is filled in i will provide samples of the CSV and LDF data to see if you can spot what i am missing :) From the top of my head i think it fills in the proxy address,SMTP and the showinaddressbook attirbutes I did want to try and make this fully automatic as the other organisation changes/updates 200-300 records daily.

Yes, I've done it with distribution groups and they will automatically show up in Exchange console, you don't need to manually run the wizard to provision them in Exchange. Contacts are the same. I'm pretty certain it was the targetaddress that was missing if you don't see it in your csv file. Test it out tomorrow and let us know.James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

Thank you very much this solved the issue. It just so turns out the contact that i choose to test this on did not have the targetaddress field filled in this must be some bad data from the export as other contacts had it in there. For anyone else who is intrested The contact does not actually show in the exchange management console, i think this may of been where my confusion was happening However when you open outlook and look at the GAL sure enough after filling in the target address there is it.

Great. That's strange it's not showing in EMC. It shows up just fine for me. Here's my sample ldf file, after I import shows up in EMC right away. dn: CN=meujchong,OU=reston,DC=ipcfcdom,DC=inphonic,DC=com changetype: add displayName: meujchong mailnickname: meujchong targetaddress:meujchong@test.com objectclass:contactJames Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

Well to be honest its good they dont show, it means that we only have our own contacts and mailboxes etc show. this will mean no accidental changes to records that are not ours. We managed to send test emails back and fourth using the external contact so all seems well...the only thing that matters is that we can send mail to the correct people :) Many thanks again for the assistance, i really could not see what the issue was for the life of me