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9.1

Power shell script and Exchange 2007 help, please

Asked by The_Spaz in Powershell, Exchange Email Server

We have a very different environment where our login is lastname.first (lastname up to a maximum of seven characters and then the first initial)  but I am not sure how to set this up in a powershell script.  The following is what I have so far and it works but it creates the full lastname.firstname   and not what I need which is the lastname up to a maximum of seven characters.first initial of the firstname.  So if the name is  mr Goodlooking the name standard would goodloo.m  for the UPN .  Can someone tell me if this can be done or not and if so what ti would be.  Thanks!
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## Run BulkImport.ps1 c:\temp\importusers.csv
## Import data from csv and store it in variable 'data' 
 
$data = import-csv $args[0] 
 
## Function to convert password into a secure string 
 
function New-SecureString([string] $plainText) 
{
   $secureString = new-object System.Security.SecureString 
 
   foreach($char in $plainText.ToCharArray())
   {
      $secureString.AppendChar($char)
   } 
 
   $secureString
} 
 
foreach ($i in $data)
{ 
 
$ss = new-securestring $i.password
$upn = $i.lastname + "." + $i.firstname + "@" + "bch.local"
 
new-mailbox -Password $ss -Alias $i.alias -LastName $i.lastname -Firstname $i.firstname -Name $i.name -Database $i.database -UserPrincipalName $upn -OrganizationalUnit $i.ou
} 
 
and my sample .csv file
Alias,LastName,FirstName,Name,Password,OU,Database
mgoodlooking,Goodlooking,Mr,Goodlooking Mr,snoopy3@mybch.org,TEMP,Users,External-Medium-F-J
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