We have a global contact list (external people [clients]) in our Exchange 2007 and we in the IT are thinking to give a limited access to selected user(s) [marketing & reception] to go and manage only the contact list (names, phones, address, AD groups, etc) and nothing more. What is the best approach to make … Read more
We have recently imported about 1000 “external” contacts into our Exchange 2007 Server. The external contacts were imported from a number of CSV files that had the contacts organised into categories. For example, CSV1 might have contained the “Hospitals” list, and CSV2 might have been the “Government Agencies” list. During the import of each CSV … Read more
I want to export user’s contacts into .csv file without knowing his password. Now, I can give an account admin full permission to user mailboxes by this cmdlet: Add-MailboxPermission -Identity abc@example.com -User admin -AccessRights FullAccess My question is, with this admin account how can I access and export contacts of abc@example.com? Or if you have … Read more
We have a list of cell phone contacts which we load from a .pst file to new users when they start using this command: New-MailboxImportRequest -Mailbox (userid) -FilePath \EX1\c$\ExFiles\CellPhoneContacts.pst -TargetRootFolder “Contacts” Once finished we log into the users account using OWA, go into “People”, expand out “Other Contacts”, right click the “Cell Phone List” and … Read more
I am currently running into an issue where a user’s contacts within Exchange are losing details every couple of months. We keep having to restore the user’s contacts from Backup to fix the issue. The user is using an iPhone and I have seen in the past from different web searches that some iPhone users … Read more
I had setup an external contact in exchange (Mail Contact) for a contractor (let’s say Joe User, forwarding to juser@hiscompany.com). I was having the problem whereby any mail sent to Joe User from within exchange was always arriving at Joe’s end with a winmail.dat attachment. Figuring this may be related to the fact that I … Read more
One of my clients is running an Exchange Server 2010 in their company. On this server, a public address book folder is stored, which can be accessed and edited by various people. Now, since there is a problem with the integrity of the contact records, they asked for a solution to enforce some rules when … Read more
I would like Outlook Exchange out of office (OOF) automatic replies: Not sent to semi-spam external e-mails. (I can put these in a local group if that will help; I cannot put them in a system-wide distribution list.) I have these emails as contacts because I want to process them differently in the client. To … Read more
We have a Blackberry Enterprise Server, about 50 Blackberries, and Exchange 2003 with a Global Address List (GAL) set up with all the company’s shared contacts (several hundred of them, or maybe a thousand). Right now each person’s Blackberry is only syncing with their personal contacts list in Outlook. Is there a way to sync … Read more
We have a user who has an iPad that is synching to our Exchange 2007 SP1 Server. She is reporting that her contacts are being “eaten”, which we take to mean are being slowly deleted over time. This user also has a BlackBerry that is synching through a Blackberry Enterprise Server. I have two questions … Read more
