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Import contacts to global address list
Hi guys and gals

I want to import the email contact list from Outlook to Global Address List so that i can share that list with my group, list is too long, which is the best and easiest method to achieve this?

Thanks everybody

#2
21-07-2009

Fleming
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 173
Re: Import contacts to global address list
You can do this by using CSVDE:

To import or export directory objects using csvde
Open an ADAM tools command prompt.

Do one of the following:
To import directory objects, at the command prompt, type:
Quote:
csvde -i -f filename -s servername:port -m -a username domain password
To export directory objects, at the command prompt, type:
Quote:
csvde -e -f filename -s servername:port -m -a username domain password

Notes
To open an ADAM tools command prompt, click Start, point to All Programs, point to ADAM, and then click ADAM Tools Command Prompt.

More : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...49(WS.10).aspx

#3
21-07-2009
mikey32
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 101
Re: Import contacts to global address list
There is a import/export tool in Microsoft Exchange Administrator Tools that should do the trick. To export and import data, Exchange Administrator uses Comma Separated Values (CSV) files. Each line in a .csv file specifies data for an exported object and contains one or more property fields. Commas, without surrounding spaces, separate adjacent fields. Each field can be empty, can contain one value, or can contain multiple values.

#4
21-07-2009

Shen
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Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 2,914
Re: Import contacts to global address list
First you could check out this KB article from Microsoft which tells how to bulk import accounts : http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;327620

Or you could have the admin create contacts in AD directly (manually): Note that the first way is actually creating account in AD as opposed to the second which just creates a contact. Anything that shows up in the GAL must be in AD. You could simply make the public folder show up as an Outlook Address book for the users by checking that box in the PF properties. If you must have them in the GAL, then you must put each entry in Active directory. You will need to export the entries out to a CSV file. You will then need to format the data in Excel to match the requirements of CSVDE. You can then import the entries to AD with CSVDE.