Working with contacts
Once you start managing mailboxes using the Exchange Management Shell, you'll probably notice that the concepts and command syntax used to manage contacts are very similar. The difference, of course, is that we need to use a different set of cmdlets. In addition, we also have two types of contacts to deal with in Exchange. We'll take a look at how you can manage both of them in the following recipe.
How to do it...
- To create a mail-enabled contact, use the
New-MailContactcmdlet:
New-MailContact -Alias rjones `-Name "Rob Jones" `-ExternalEmailAddress [email protected] `-OrganizationalUnit sales
- Mail-enabled users can be created with the
New-MailUsercmdlet:
New-MailUser -Name 'John Davis' `-Alias jdavis `-UserPrincipalName [email protected] `-FirstName John `-LastName Davis `-Password (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText P@ssw0rd ` -Force) `-ResetPasswordOnNextLogon $false `-ExternalEmailAddress [email protected]
How it works...
Mail contacts are useful when you have external...
