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Can anyone help me import contacts into AD from an Excel spreadsheet?

Asked by turnkeysol in VB Script, Active Directory, Exchange Email Server

Tags: Microsoft, Server 2003 (Active Directory), Importing contacts into active directory from excel spreadsheet with vbscript

I'm trying to import contacts into AD from an Excel spreadsheet. This is the vbscript I'm trying to use...Could anyone tell me why it's not working? When I run it I don't get any errors, and the contacts do not show up in the OU specified.
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Option Explicit
Dim objRootLDAP, objContainer, objContact, objExcel, objSheet
Dim strOU, strContactName, strPathExcel, strEmail, strProxy
Dim intRow, strYourDescription, strFirst, strLast, strMainDefault
Dim strMailbox, strNick
 
' Set string variables
strOU = "OU=Contacts,DC=ccofla,DC=com," ' Note the comma
strYourDescription = "Founder"
strPathExcel = "c:\contactsEx3.xls"
strYourDescription = "Guy's Contact"
intRow = 3 ' Row 1 contains headings
 
' Section to bind to Active Directory
Set objRootLDAP=GetObject("LDAP://rootDSE")
Set objContainer=GetObject("LDAP://OU=Contacts,DC=ccofla,DC=com")
 
' Open the Excel spreadsheet
Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set objSheet = objExcel.Workbooks.Open(strPathExcel)
 
' Here is the loop that cycles through the cells
Do Until (objExcel.Cells(intRow,1).Value) = ""
strContactName = objExcel.Cells(intRow, 1).Value
strEmail = objExcel.cells(intRow, 2).Value
strFirst = objExcel.cells(intRow, 3).Value
strLast = objExcel.cells(intRow, 4).Value
strProxy = objExcel.cells(intRow, 5).Value
strMainDefault = objExcel.cells(intRow, 6).Value
strMailbox = objExcel.cells(intRow, 10).Value
strProxy = objExcel.cells(intRow, 5).Value
strNick =strContactName
 
 
' Build the actual contacts.
Set objContact = objContainer.Create("Contact",_
"cn=" & strContactName)
objContact.Put "Mail", strEmail
objContact.Put "givenName", strFirst
objContact.Put "sn", strLast
objContact.Put "proxyAddresses", strProxy
objContact.Put "targetAddress", strMainDefault
objContact.Put "legacyExchangeDN", strMailbox
objContact.Put "mailNickname", strNick
objContact.SetInfo
 
intRow = intRow + 1
Loop
objExcel.Quit
WScript.Quit
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ContactsEx3.xls (24 KB) (File Type Details) 
Sreadsheet template
 
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