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Importing passwords into Exchange 5.5

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Does anyone know if it is possible to import a list of passswords for mailboxes into Exchange 5.5 from a CSV or other file? I have imported other info into Exchange , but I have seen no info on passwords and as of now, I assume you cannot. Please, someone prove me wrong....

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by nichomach

Tricky question - the password in question will be that of the associated user account, and you can import that using the addusers utility from the NT4 Resource Kit. Then you import the Exchange list associating each mailbox with the appropriate imported user. Conversely, the addusers utility can be used to dump your existing accounts to a CSV file.

by kjohnson7

I had checked into that and according to Microsoft's documentaton - passwords are not included in the options.

by kjohnson7

That is the same conclusion that I came up with. So to finish the project I had to change 100+ mailbox passwords to match the new standard by hand. No fun!!
Thanks to everyone who gave the issue a look.

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