Questions[contacts](server)

I'm using PowerShell to create mail contacts (external users, not employees) in Exchange 2013 but they are automatically being assigned internal addresses according to the mailbox policies.

For example, I create a contact called "Test User" with an email address "[email protected]". The contact is created and the primary address is the google address as expected. In addition, the default policy is applied and adds an address like "[email protected]" to the contact's alternate addresses. If I delete it, it's reassigned immediately.

The problem is that 6 months later when I hire an employee who should receive the valid address "[email protected]", it's unavailable and he gets "[email protected]". If I re-apply rules strategically, I can give him the address I want and give the contact an invalid address instead but that's a lot of work and it all gets peeled back if another admin re-applies in the wrong order afterward.

So - why are email policies applied to contact objects in the first place? And can you stop that from happening?

has anymbody experience with configuration for synchronization contacts between Zimbra Community Edition and multiple devices with multiple clients MS Outlook/Thunderbird/FossaMail/K9?

Is needed some plugins/zimlets for Zimbra? Or Third-Party software? I tried Zimbra Connector for MS Outlook, but it doesnt work and it seems, that only works with Non-Community edition.

Anybody tried Z-Push, Zindus?

What I'm trying to do here without wasting too much time is we want our company to have all the associate photos as their contact pictures in Outlook. I know Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 have a lot of places now where contact pictures appear, if one is selected. So instead of having all the grey boxes to add a picture, we want to just add photos for everyone.

Here's what I understand -- We are running Exchange 2010, and from what I understand, each time a new user is created, it adds that user to the global contacts list, and then pushes that out to Outlook, correct? Also, with individual contacts added on each machine under the Contacts tab in Outlook, you can add all the user info and add a picture whereas the global contact list pulls straight from Active Directory. But, there is no where to add a picture in active directory for each user. Using google I found this which writes a script that uploads a 10K .jpeg photo to each active directory user, based on user name. Obviously that isn't the easiest way to do it.

Does anyone know of ANY way that would accomplish what I'm trying to do? If AD doesn't support photos, no biggie. I would just like to add these pics.

I was thinking maybe create a contact group of all the associates with the correct info and photos, and then import that to each machine. But I'm sure someone knows a better/easier way.

My company currently uses MS Exchange 2003 for company email, contacts, and calendars. We have approximately 150 users. Construction industry.

I would like to look into migrating from Exchange to Google Apps. It will be an easier sell to the powers that be if we can migrate certain smaller departments first successfully than an entire company move.

I would like to first migrate our field superintendents who are usually out of the office working remotely. Approx 30 users.

Will Google App users be able to see our Exchange user's calendars and vice versa? How about public folders? Anyone's migration story is much appreciated.

Thank you.

We are using an out of date custom application for managing mailing/contact lists. We are a very small office, an all Microsoft shop. We have Exchange and Windows Sharepoint Services and Office 2007.

I'm looking for thoughts about the best solution for setting up a shared contact list which would be used for mail merges and also simple searches for email/phone.

Sharepoint and Exchange/Outlook both have pros and cons - what are they? Any other options?