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Mass update address fields in shared contacts
We have a major client who is moving their offices. This clients employees number in the hundreds of our shared contacts and each entry will need to have the old mailing address updated with the new address. Is there a way to do this programmatically or a third party solution that would accomplish this?
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I am looking at a way to do this at the Exchange level. We are on Exchange 2010 and the addresses reside in a public folder of shared contacts.
Cathal
Cathal
I would have to agree with alanhardisty with exporting them to a csv and updating the address and redump them back in.
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Thanks Alan and NRhode, but I don't see where I would export a public folder (shared contacts) that resides in Exchange to CSV.
From Outlook itself I can only export my own contacts (and we can do this for our users that may have these contacts in their own personal contacts) but we need to update the contacts in the Public Folder that is shared by users in three different offices and three different cities. I have read that this can be accomplished using Exchange Web Services but I can honestly say I have not used EWS before and would be hesitant to attempt this and risk messing up a folder that contains 6,000+ contacts in it without exploring all my options beforehand.
From Outlook itself I can only export my own contacts (and we can do this for our users that may have these contacts in their own personal contacts) but we need to update the contacts in the Public Folder that is shared by users in three different offices and three different cities. I have read that this can be accomplished using Exchange Web Services but I can honestly say I have not used EWS before and would be hesitant to attempt this and risk messing up a folder that contains 6,000+ contacts in it without exploring all my options beforehand.
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Thanks Alan - I will attempt that before I try anything in EWS! If this works I will let you know.
Appreciate the help on this.
Cathal
Appreciate the help on this.
Cathal
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