Auto-populate Contact List

DarylG

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Dec 28, 2005, 9:03:12 PM12/28/05

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Hi,

I have read through the posts and see that the ABS does not auto-populate. I
saw one script to do that, but I wondered if anyone had found any
alternative. My MOC clients can find anyone, but I'd like to load contacts.

Thanks for any help.

DG

Bob Christian

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Jan 1, 2006, 6:46:30 PM1/1/06

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Daryl -

When you say auto populate, do you mean auto populate in Microsoft Office
Communicator contacts, or do you mean the address book service is not
auto-populating the entries when you search?

There is a limit to the number of contacts that Microsoft Office
Communicator can hold at one time. ...and in some companies, they have tens
of thousands of potential contacts. For this reason, yes, you will have to
run a script to populate all of the contacts, in an organization. This will
populate it for both MOC and WM.

Download the LCS 2005 SP1 Resource kit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A368DED8-EA7C-4C65-9844-39CAFA07A454&displaylang=en

Located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft LC 2005\ResKit\WMI Samples\
directory are two files: LCSAddContacts_readme.htm and LCSAddContacts.wsf

Regarding this script, the readme is pretty good...and is great for a
script. In addition, you can look at the .wsf script as it is cleartext and
not encoded/encrupted.

This script utilizes two import text files. The downside is that this
script would have to be re-ran each time a user is added to your
group(s). The upside is that you simply need to update the files.
Another upside is that the script should not duplicate contacts that it has
already added. You could also utilize it to put the contacts in a group and
simply update that group.

The WMI reference is located here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/lcs2005/rtc/rtc_server_wmi_reference.asp

Bob

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DarylG

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Jan 1, 2006, 10:47:14 PM1/1/06

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Hi Bob,

Thanks for the informative reply. Happy New Year!

DG

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Geoff Walker

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Jan 3, 2006, 2:23:10 PM1/3/06

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Is this script used for enabling LCS users, or for populating Office
Communicator contacts?
I see it requires RTCDomainUserAdmins permissions.

I want to populate Office Communicator contacts using a script.

Thanks.

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David

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Jan 4, 2006, 3:15:03 PM1/4/06

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Can this be used with LCS 2003? We would like to pre-populate our
Communicator 2005 clients with a standard set of contacts and are using LCS
2003.

Bob Christian

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Jan 4, 2006, 5:14:27 PM1/4/06

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Out of curiosity, do you have Microsoft Office Communicator working with LCS
2003?

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