

Main Difference in the properties of Mail Contact and Mail User:īoth Mail User and Mail contact has general information, contact information, organization details and MailTips as similar. To Change the properties to a Mail user use Set-MailUser command with different switches. Get-MailUser | FL Name,RecipientTypeDetails,ExternalEmailAddress New-MailUser -Name "" -Alias -ExternalEmailAddress -FirstName -LastName -UserPrincipalName -Password (ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'Pa$$word1' -AsPlainText -Force) NOTE: We can change the properties of the Mail User by clicking on Edit. Once done, you can find the Mail User under EAC as below: In the New Mail User window, provide Name, login details as login name and password, Alias, external email address, Select Organizational unit and click on Save as below: NOTE: A mail user is similar to a mail contact however a mail user has Active Directory logon credentials and can access resources within the exchange organization but a mail contact cannot.

Each mail user has an external email address and the emais sent to the mail user is routed to this external email address. Import-Csv “Mailcontacts.csv” | ForEach Ī mail-enabled user is an Active Directory account which represents a user outside of the Exchange organization. To Change the properties to a Mail Contact use Set-MailContact command with different switches. Remove-MailContact -Identity MSExchangeGuru.Local/ Get-MailContact "" | FL Name,RecipientTypeDetails,ExternalEmailAddress New-MailContact -Name “” -ExternalEmailAddress -OrganizationalUnit UsersĮnable-MailContact -Identity "" -ExternalEmailAddress NOTE: We can change the properties of the Mail Contact by clicking on Edit. Once done, you can find the Mail Contact under EAC as below: In New Mail Contact window, provide Name, Display name, Alias, External email address, select the Organizational Unit and click on Save: Open EAC and Navigate to Recipients à Select Contacts à Click on
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Let us see how to create the mail contact in Exchange 2016:

Mail Contacts are nothing but mail enabled directory service objects which contains the information about the user which exist outside/external of the exchange organization.Įach contact will have an external email address and the email sent to the contact will route to this external email address.
