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From: Jeff on 1 Apr 2010 11:42 I'm trying to get the check box that says "Hide From Exchange Address Lists" checked for about 900 mail contacts in our exchange 2007 system. To select the users, I enter this into powershell: get-user -filter {WindowsEmailAddress -eq '*@MyCompany.com'} When I do that, it pulls every user that I am interested in. However, when I try to pipe that into get-mailcontact, I get an error that says the user that was piped in can't be found on the domain controller. I've tried forcing it to different domain controllers and always get the same result. Any suggestions for getting around this? Thanks.
From: Karl Mitschke on 1 Apr 2010 12:51 Hello Jeff, > I'm trying to get the check box that says "Hide From Exchange Address > Lists" checked for about 900 mail contacts in our exchange 2007 > system. To select the users, I enter this into powershell: > > get-user -filter {WindowsEmailAddress -eq '*@MyCompany.com'} > > When I do that, it pulls every user that I am interested in. However, > when I try to pipe that into get-mailcontact, I get an error that says > the user that was piped in can't be found on the domain controller. > I've tried forcing it to different domain controllers and always get > the same result. > > Any suggestions for getting around this? > > Thanks. > Why not use Get-MailContact? Get-MailContact -filter {WindowsEmailAddress -eq '*@MyCompany.com'} |Set-MailContact -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled: $True -whatif Karl http://unlockpowershell.wordpress.com/
From: Jeff on 1 Apr 2010 13:13 Karl, Thanks for your reply. I tried just using get-mailcontact and the syntax you provide works. However(and this is what I find puzzling), when I use get-mailcontact like you suggest, it doesn't error out, but I also don't get any results back. However, replacing get-mailcontact with get-user gives me all of the entries I'm trying to find. Thanks, Jeff On Apr 1, 12:51 pm, Karl Mitschke <karlmitsc...(a)somestate.gov> wrote: > Hello Jeff, > > > > > > > I'm trying to get the check box that says "Hide From Exchange Address > > Lists" checked for about 900 mail contacts in our exchange 2007 > > system. To select the users, I enter this into powershell: > > > get-user -filter {WindowsEmailAddress -eq '...@MyCompany.com'} > > > When I do that, it pulls every user that I am interested in. However, > > when I try to pipe that into get-mailcontact, I get an error that says > > the user that was piped in can't be found on the domain controller. > > I've tried forcing it to different domain controllers and always get > > the same result. > > > Any suggestions for getting around this? > > > Thanks. > > Why not use Get-MailContact? > > Get-MailContact -filter {WindowsEmailAddress -eq '...@MyCompany.com'} |Set-MailContact > -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled: $True -whatif > > Karlhttp://unlockpowershell.wordpress.com/
From: Rich Matheisen [MVP] on 1 Apr 2010 21:55 On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 10:13:13 -0700 (PDT), Jeff <jbrusoe(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Thanks for your reply. I tried just using get-mailcontact and the >syntax you provide works. However(and this is what I find puzzling), >when I use get-mailcontact like you suggest, it doesn't error out, but >I also don't get any results back. However, replacing get-mailcontact >with get-user gives me all of the entries I'm trying to find. It's unlikely that mail-enabled Contacts will have a primary SMTP proxy address in one of your domains. They'd have e-mail addresses in other domains. FYI, using the WindowsEmailAddress property can be misleading. The property is named appropriately -- it isn't used by Exchange. You'd do much better using the PrimarySmtpAddress property. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
From: Karl Mitschke on 2 Apr 2010 09:41 Hello Rich Matheisen [MVP], > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 10:13:13 -0700 (PDT), Jeff <jbrusoe(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks for your reply. I tried just using get-mailcontact and the >> syntax you provide works. However(and this is what I find puzzling), >> when I use get-mailcontact like you suggest, it doesn't error out, >> but I also don't get any results back. However, replacing >> get-mailcontact with get-user gives me all of the entries I'm trying >> to find. >> > It's unlikely that mail-enabled Contacts will have a primary SMTP > proxy address in one of your domains. They'd have e-mail addresses in > other domains. > > FYI, using the WindowsEmailAddress property can be misleading. The > property is named appropriately -- it isn't used by Exchange. You'd do > much better using the PrimarySmtpAddress property. > --- > Rich Matheisen > MCSE+I, Exchange MVP Yes, I was going to suggst that Jeff run Get-MailContact filtering on PrimarySmtpAddress instead, but hadn't gotten around to it. Thanks for helping while I was away :) When he wrote that it wasn't returning results, I thought it was odd, as a get-user shows the WindowsEmailAddress for him. Well, I assume it does, as he says he's filtering on it in Get-User ;) Karl http://unlockpowershell.wordpress.com/
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