Directory Mate 2003 Help

Creating Contacts : Table of Contents
- Creating a New Contact without an E-mail Address
- Creating a New Contact with an E-mail Address

 

Creating a New Contact without an E-mail Address

 

New contacts can be created with as much or as little information as you require.  The following is an example for creating a contact that does not have an e-mail address named "Barbra Wash" with a few basic properties.

 

The first line in our import csv file is the names of the columns we will be using:

mode,distinguishedName,objectClass,displayName,givenName,sn

mode: This column specifies the type of import operation we will be performing.  Since we are creating a new contact will we use the value "Create".

 

distinguishedName: This column specifies the directory name and location for our new object. In our example we want our new contact to have the directory name "Barbra Wash" and be created in our Contacts organizational unit.  For this we use the value "CN=Barbra Wash,OU=Contacts,DC=MADSolutions,DC=com".

 

objectClass: This column specifies the type of object we are creating.  We use the value "Contact".

 

displayName, givenName and sn:  These columns are basic name attributes for our new user. We will use the values "Barbra Wash", "Barbra" and "Wash".  You do not have to specify these columns or any other information columns if they are not necessary.

 

Creating a New Contact with an E-mail Address

 

To create a new contact with an e-mail address we start with the same columns that are outlined in the above example, "Creating a New Contact without an E-mail Address".  We then add columns to create the e-mail address for the contact and mail enable it.  In our example for the contact "Barbra Wash", we want our contact to have the e-mail address "BWash@VFilters.com" 

 

The first line in our import csv file is the names of the columns we will be using:

mode,distinguishedName,objectClass,displayName,givenName,sn,

legacyExchangeDN,mail,mailNickname,targetAddress,proxyAddresses,mAPIRecipient
 

legacyExchangeDN:  This column specifies where our object appears in Microsoft Exchange.  It's format is similar to the distinguished names used for mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 5.5.  The format is "/o=<organization>/ou=<administrative group>/cn=<container>/cn=<object>".  We will use the value "/o=MADSolutions/ou=First Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=BWash".

 

mail: This column receives the e-mail address for our new contact.  We use the value "BWash@VFilters.com".

 

mailNickname: This column receives the first part of the e-mail address for our new contact.  We use the value "BWash".

 

targetAddress: This column receives the e-mail address for our new contact and includes the address type.  We use the value "SMTP:BWash@VFilters.com".

 

proxyAddresses: This column receives the e-mail address for our new contact and includes the address type.  We use the same value as we did for targetAddress, "SMTP:BWash@VFilters.com".

 

mAPIRecipient: This column allows you to specify whether or not the recipient has a MAPI-capable system.  By default new user objects have this value set to "True" and new contacts have this value set to "False".  If the value is set to "True", special Microsoft Exchange properties will be set on the outgoing message.  In our example we will set this value to "False".