asked on 12/10/2019

AD Contacts are not sync with MSX 2016

Dear Experts, I have a synchronisation problem between our "one and only" DC (WS 2016 Std.) and also "one and only" Exchange 2016. We are opening and editing contacts in AD but they are not automatically synchronized with our exchange. Both are new installation and maybe I've made something wrong or didn't understand the way they are communicating. Please be indulgent, I'm not the best SYS Admin ;-)

Have a great stressfree day and thank you for reading my problem

Best Regards Olivier

Exchange Installation

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Member_2_8201772

12/12/2019

Alex

12/10/2019

Olivier,

Firstly, and I'm sure/hope you understand the rather precarious position you're in with a single domain controller. That goes, you're screwed, simple as.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/exchange-server-2010/bb124237(v=exchg.141)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

You need to sync it yourself and mail enable the contact. It's all in the above link.

Alan Cox

12/10/2019

are they mail enabled? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/users-and-groups/enable-mailcontact?view=exchange-ps
I generally create and edit contacts in Exchange EAC not Active directory.

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Member_2_8201772

12/10/2019

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Hi Alex / Hi Alan

Thank you very much for the quick answers. Yes, Alan, I know how dangerous the fact that we have now just one DC. This is on my radar. I will try to run the export all the contacts and run the script. The editing from contacts are made from an employee without knowledge of Exchange. That's why I've created a snapin with delegate control on the OU.

I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year :-)

Greetings from Switzerland

Olivier

Alan Cox

12/10/2019

you as well. keep us posted.

Member_2_8201772

12/10/2019

ASKER

contacts.csv

Member_2_8201772

12/10/2019

ASKER

@Alan, could you please make a script with that file? Do you need more Infos?

Alan Cox

12/10/2019

I'll need name (display name), External Email address and Organizational unit path in CSV headers

Alan Cox

12/10/2019

These are just raw contacts with no External email address so exchange won't see them (no mail attributes). So I would need a csv with at least an externalemailaddress column and OU (where you want contacts to be in Active Directory, Finally a Name Column so the 'display name' will appear correctly in GAL.

Member_2_8201772

12/11/2019

ASKER

Dear Alan

I'm really sorry for that. I didn't proof the file. It was a long day yesterday. I will do it tomorrow morning.

Kindly Olivier

Member_2_8201772

12/12/2019

ASKER

Dear Alan/Alex

I've found what I exactly need. This Powershell script has done it for all the objects contatcs:

get-contact -organizationalunit testou -RecipientTypeDetails Contact -Filter 'WindowsEmailAddress -ne $null' |
foreach { enable-mailcontact -Identity $_ -ExternalEmailAddress $_.WindowsEmailAddress.toString() }

Please feel free to share it if you want

Best Regards Olivier Travelletti