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How to i enter hebrew characters in New-MailContact (CSV bulk import)
Posted on 2012-12-29
Hi
I am trying to run a bulk import to my Exchange 2010 from a CSV file.
I run the following in a powershell script:
Import-Csv C:\contacts.csv | ForEach { New-MailContact -Name $_.displayName -Firstname $_.FirstName -LastName $_.LastName -ExternalEmailAddress $_.EmailAddress -OrganizationalUnit "YourDomain.Local/Contacts
It runs great, but the problem is that the CSV file has hebrew characters, and those are entered as question marks instead. Is there some setting i am missing?
Thanks
Jaime
I am trying to run a bulk import to my Exchange 2010 from a CSV file.
I run the following in a powershell script:
Import-Csv C:\contacts.csv | ForEach { New-MailContact -Name $_.displayName -Firstname $_.FirstName -LastName $_.LastName -ExternalEmailAddress $_.EmailAddress -OrganizationalUnit "YourDomain.Local/Contacts
It runs great, but the problem is that the CSV file has hebrew characters, and those are entered as question marks instead. Is there some setting i am missing?
Thanks
Jaime
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Active 3 days ago
The problem is that the .csv file was saved in the ANSI format. You can fix this by converting the file to unicode with the following comand before importing.
gc c:\old-file.csv | Out-File -en unicode c:\new-unicode.csv
Or you can just open the csv file in notepad and save it in unicode format before you run import-csv..
gc c:\old-file.csv | Out-File -en unicode c:\new-unicode.csv
Or you can just open the csv file in notepad and save it in unicode format before you run import-csv..
Thanks, it does load the hebrew characters alright, although the Alias field is filled with question marks for all contacts, is there something i can do?
Active 3 days ago
Do you have problem after changing the encoding? if yes please post some sample words/usernames which you have issue, so I will test it..
I think i didn't explain well.
I opened the csv file and saved it as Unicode.
Then i run the import code from my first post, and it runs successfully, and when checking, all the contacts were created successfully *with correct hebrew characters*.
Just when browsing the contacts themselves, i noticed the Alias field (which is created automatically i guess, during the import ) is all question marks. I wondered if there was a way for me to set the value for this field so it's in hebrew as well.
Jaime
I opened the csv file and saved it as Unicode.
Then i run the import code from my first post, and it runs successfully, and when checking, all the contacts were created successfully *with correct hebrew characters*.
Just when browsing the contacts themselves, i noticed the Alias field (which is created automatically i guess, during the import ) is all question marks. I wondered if there was a way for me to set the value for this field so it's in hebrew as well.
Jaime
Active 3 days ago
If you have a list of contacts to modify, then you can try with set mailbox.. Something like the following should work..
Import-csv "c:\newalias.csv" | % {Get-MailContact - Identity $_.Name | Set-MailContact -Alias $_.Alias}
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