Working with contacts
Once you've started managing mailboxes using the Exchange Management Shell, you'll probably notice that the concepts and command syntax used to manage contacts are very similar. The difference of course is that we need to use a different set of cmdlets. In addition, we also have two types of contacts to deal with in Exchange. We'll take a look at how you can manage both of them in this recipe.
How to do it...
To create a mail-enabled contact, use the New-MailContact cmdlet:
New-MailContact -Alias rjones ` -Name "Rob Jones" ` -ExternalEmailAddress rob@fabrikam.com ` -OrganizationalUnit sales
Mail-enabled users can be created with the New-MailUser cmdlet:
New-MailUser -Name 'John Davis' ` -Alias jdavis ` -UserPrincipalName jdavis@contoso.com ` -FirstName John ` -LastName Davis ` -Password (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText P@ssw0rd -Force) ` -ResetPasswordOnNextLogon $false ` -ExternalEmailAddress jdavis@fabrikam.com
How it works...
Mail contacts are useful when you have...
