Moving contacts between domains

by Mitch Tulloch [Published on 17 Feb. 2016 / Last Updated on 17 Feb. 2016]

A tip on how to move contacts between Active Directory domains.

Here's some PowerShell someone sent me that moves all the contacts in the Active Directory domain contoso.com to the child domain corp.contoso.com:

Import-module ActiveDirectory

Get-adobject -ldapfilter "(objectclass=contact)" -SearchBase 'OU=Sales,DC=contoso,DC=com' | move-adobject -TargetPath "OU=Sales,DC=corp,DC=contoso,DC=com" -TargetServer dc1.corp.contoso.com

You need to customize the domains, OUs and target server to make it work of course.

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Mitch Tulloch is an eleven-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award and a widely recognized expert on Windows Server and cloud computing technologies.  Mitch is also Senior Editor of WServerNews. For more information about him see http://www.mtit.com.

 

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The Author — Mitch Tulloch

Mitch Tulloch is a well-known expert on Windows Server administration and cloud computing technologies. He has published over a thousand articles on information technology topics and has written, contributed to or been series editor for over 50 books.