Of course! CSVDE imports only what you provide. 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: 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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange > To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > Jupitermedia Corp. > Attn: Discussion List Management > 475 Park Avenue South > New York, NY 10016 > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange > To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > Jupitermedia Corp. > Attn: Discussion List Management > 475 Park Avenue South > New York, NY 10016 > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
