Import Outlook Contacts to Active Directory

Does anyone know how to import Outlook Contacts of individual Users into 
Active Directory?  I am trying to combine the Outlook Contacts of several 
Users on our network into one large Contact list in Active Directory.  This 
will enable us to search all Contacts from each desktop plus allow walk up 
Scan to E-mail functionality from our copy machine.

Export individual Contacts into a .pst files and then import all of them into 
one Contcact Folder, say, in your account. Then publish it in a Public Folder 
by moving the consolidated folder into the Public Folder.

Patrick

That will not get them to show up in Active Directory.  It does consolidate 
them, however.

If you want to import them into Active Directory (say store them all in a 
Contacts OU or something), then when you export from Outlook, export to csv 
file.  Then, create a new contact in AD (to see what fields AD needs for new 
contacts), then export it using csvde.  Example usage would be (from command 
prompt on your domain controller)

csvde -r "(objectclass=contact)" -f c:\contacts.csv (or other filename as 
you see fit).

Once you've exported that, you can view the resulting csv file, then massage 
your Outlook contacts csv file appropriately and use csvde again to import 
them into AD.  The following article should help in terms of what fields are 
required - other header fields can be added as needed (use the sample 
contact export as a template)
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Another option you have is to use LDIFDE.  It is another bulk import tool, 
much like CSVDE, but the format of the file is a little different.  You can 
figure out what fields are used the same way that you did with CSVDE, except 
specify the export file as a .ldif (or .ldf) file instead of .csv.

Hope that helps.

-- 
Ben Winzenz
Exchange MVP

I want to make sure I understand this process. In using csvde -r 
"(objectclass=contact)" -f c:\contacts.csv ( this will allow me to import all 
the users' contacts into the contacts.csv?)

I am building a marketing distribution list for the company by extracting 
all the AE's business contacts but I'm having problems understanding how I 
can do this in bulk export without getting the user to export their contacts 
individually. 

At some point, I want to automate this export to be process twice a month 
into a table and then create a list from there.