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by v-gathara

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I have been tasked with creating a large number of custom recipients (belonging to another company) in our Exchange server so that users can pick them up from the GAL when sending messages.

I used directory import to import a .csv excel file withthe following parameters:

Obj-Class First Name Last Name Display Name Directory Name E-mail address

I tried altering the site addressing to generate an email address for the users (as it kept generating our sites set email addresses) and it worked. However it created mailboxes rather than custom recipients. Test messages to the users were noted as having been delivered to the mailboxes but did not reach the users. I suspect they did not leave our Exchange server. This may be due to the fact that I used the obj-class Mailbox to create the recipients. Is there an obj-class for custom recipeints and if so how does Exchange generate the email address. Do I need to include it in the .csv file? Grateful for a step-by-step on how I can do this.

Victor

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by tony.colgrove

Yes there is an obj class for custom recipients. Here is the best thing to do. Manually create the first Custom recipient. Then export the custom recipients to a .csv.
Look at the file for the correct format. Built all the other ones and importit back in.

Since your import made mailboxes, the messages where delivered locally to the mailboxes and did not go external. You should delete these mailboxes.

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