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    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...

    Tuesday, September 20, 2011 7:19 PM

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    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."
    Tuesday, September 20, 2011 7:35 PM

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    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."
    Tuesday, September 20, 2011 7:35 PM
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    Hi,

    Please update.

    Thanks

    Sophia Xu
    Thursday, September 22, 2011 2:13 AM
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    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.

    Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:37 PM