Next, whatever environment you are in, you need a copy of the DLL file that provides the bits and pieces that make this all work. Installing the Exchange Web Services Managed API
Full details of how to setup impersonal are on the Microsoft site, but if you just want to get it setup for a single admin/service account, org-wide, use the following command substituing serviceaccount for your service account: In Exchange 2010, setup of Exchange impersonation is managed via RBAC. If you’re planning on doing a mass-import of contacts, or don’t know the user’s password you’re importing, then setup of EWS impersonation is the step you need to take to allow a trusted account to switch to the user you want to import. Most actions that can be performed in Outlook can be performed via EWS – so much so, in fact, that Apple’s Mail.app in Snow Leopard and the latest update for Entourage 2008 use EWS as the backend for the mail clients themselves. Setup of Exchange Web Services ImpersonationĮxchange Web Services is the programmatic interface to each user’s Exchange mailbox. Installing the Managed API DLL onto your computer.Setup of EWS impersonation, unless you only want to work with accounts you know the username/password for.Don’t worry though! It’s nothing too onerous – all is needed to get going is two things: Getting startedīefore you can run this script, there are a few things you need to set up first. The reason that Powershell is the right language for code like this is that it’s fairly easy for the enterprising administrator to modify to their needs. What I’ve heard is it would be useful to have some Powershell code that out-of-the box can import contacts into any Exchange mailbox. While this isn’t the actual code I used (I wrote my original code in C#), I’ve re-visited what I’ve done and listened to what others say they need. While Microsoft provide IMAP migration tools to move mail to Outlook Live (which I was lucky enough to beta test before it was widely available), no tools are provided to move other data such as contacts and calendars.
When performing migrations between different systems, there’s always the case where the tools available don’t do the job out of the box – and although IMAP migration tools for Exchange and Outlook Live can be great for moving mail, there isn’t a decent free solution for importing contacts.įor a recent migration from a Unix system (Dovecot + SquirrelMail) to Outlook Live, I came across this very scenario.
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