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This cmdlet is available in on-premises Exchange and in the cloud-based service. Some parameters and settings may be exclusive to one environment or the other.

Use the Get-Contact cmdlet to view existing contact objects in your organization. This cmdlet returns contacts and mail contacts.

For information about the parameter sets in the Syntax section below, see Exchange cmdlet syntax.

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• If you have an Exchange or Microsoft 365 account, that's your organization's Global Address List. If you're using a POP or IMAP account, you'll see your Contacts folder. If you have multiple contacts folders or address books, you can use the drop-down under Address Book to choose among them.
• You can also create a contact list for sending email to a group of people. To go to the People page, sign in to Outlook.com and select at the lower left corner of the page. Create contacts. New contacts are saved in your default Contacts folder, and you will also see them under All contacts. If you want to save the contact in a different folder.
• If you use Microsoft’s subscription email client, Outlook 365, then importing contacts will need to be done via Outlook 2016, 2013, 2010 or 2007 (desktop or laptop client). In Outlook desktop client, add your Outlook 365 account. Just go to the file and then click on Add Account option and add your email account here.
• Sign in to Microsoft 365 with your Microsoft 365 user ID, and click Support New service request. If you're in the new admin center, click Show all Support New service request. If you're an admin on the account, call (800) 865-9408 (toll-free, US only). If you’re outside the United States, see the global support phone numbers.

Syntax

Description

The Get-Contact cmdlet returns no mail-related properties for mail contacts. Use the Get-MailContact to view mail-related properties for mail contacts.

You need to be assigned permissions before you can run this cmdlet. Although this topic lists all parameters for the cmdlet, you may not have access to some parameters if they're not included in the permissions assigned to you. To find the permissions required to run any cmdlet or parameter in your organization, see Find the permissions required to run any Exchange cmdlet.

Examples

Example 1

This example returns a summary list of all contacts in your organization.

Example 2

This example returns detailed information for the contact named Markus Breyer.

Example 3

This example uses the Anr parameter to retrieve all mail-enabled contacts whose names start with Markus.

Parameters

The Anr parameter specifies a string on which to perform an ambiguous name resolution (ANR) search. You can specify a partial string and search for objects with an attribute that matches that string. The default attributes searched are:

• CommonName (CN)
• DisplayName
• FirstName
• LastName
• Alias

This parameter is available only in on-premises Exchange.

The Credential parameter specifies the username and password that's used to run this command. Typically, you use this parameter in scripts or when you need to provide different credentials that have the required permissions.

A value for this parameter requires the Get-Credential cmdlet. To pause this command and receive a prompt for credentials, use the value (Get-Credential). Or, before you run this command, store the credentials in a variable (for example, $cred = Get-Credential) and then use the variable name ($cred) for this parameter. For more information, see Get-Credential.

This parameter is available only in on-premises Exchange.

The DomainController parameter specifies the domain controller that's used by this cmdlet to read data from or write data to Active Directory. You identify the domain controller by its fully qualified domain name (FQDN). For example, dc01.contoso.com.

The Filter parameter uses OPath syntax to filter the results by the specified properties and values. The search criteria uses the syntax 'Property -ComparisonOperator 'Value'.

• Enclose the whole OPath filter in double quotation marks ' '. If the filter contains system values (for example, $true, $false, or $null), use single quotation marks ' ' instead. Although this parameter is a string (not a system block), you can also use braces { }, but only if the filter doesn't contain variables.
• Property is a filterable property. For more information about the filterable properties, see Filterable properties for the Filter parameter.
• ComparisonOperator is an OPath comparison operator (for example -eq for equals and -like for string comparison). For more information about comparison operators, see about_Comparison_Operators.
• Value is the property value to search for. Enclose text values and variables in single quotation marks ('Value' or '$Variable'). If a variable value contains single quotation marks, you need to identify (escape) the single quotation marks to expand the variable correctly. For example, instead of '$User', use '$($User -Replace '','')'. Don't enclose integers or system values (for example, 500, $true, $false, or $null).

You can chain multiple search criteria together using the logical operators -and and -or. For example, 'Criteria1 -and Criteria2' or '(Criteria1 -and Criteria2) -or Criteria3'.

For detailed information about OPath filters in Exchange, see Additional OPATH syntax information.

The Identity parameter specifies the contact that you want to view. You can use any value that uniquely identifies the contact. For example:

• Name
• Distinguished name (DN)
• Canonical DN
• GUID

This parameter is available only in on-premises Exchange.

The IgnoreDefaultScope switch tells the command to ignore the default recipient scope setting for the Exchange Management Shell session, and to use the entire forest as the scope. This allows the command to access Active Directory objects that aren't currently available in the default scope.

Using the IgnoreDefaultScope switch introduces the following restrictions:

• You can't use the DomainController parameter. The command uses an appropriate global catalog server automatically.
• You can only use the DN for the Identity parameter. Other forms of identification, such as alias or GUID, aren't accepted.

The OrganizationalUnit parameter filters the results based on the object's location in Active Directory. Only objects that exist in the specified location are returned. Valid input for this parameter is an organizational unit (OU) or domain that's returned by the Get-OrganizationalUnit cmdlet. You can use any value that uniquely identifies the OU or domain. For example:

• Name
• Canonical name
• Distinguished name (DN)
• GUID

This parameter is available only in on-premises Exchange.

The ReadFromDomainController switch specifies that information should be read from a domain controller in the user's domain. If you run the command Set-AdServerSettings -ViewEntireForest $true to include all objects in the forest and you don't use the ReadFromDomainController switch, it's possible that information will be read from a global catalog that has outdated information. When you use the ReadFromDomainController switch, multiple reads might be necessary to get the information. You don't have to specify a value with this switch.

By default, the recipient scope is set to the domain that hosts your Exchange servers.

The RecipientTypeDetails parameter filters the results by the specified contact subtype. Valid values are:

• Contact
• MailContact
• MailForestContact

You can specify multiple values separated by commas.

The ResultSize parameter specifies the maximum number of results to return. If you want to return all requests that match the query, use unlimited for the value of this parameter. The default value is 1000.

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The SortBy parameter specifies the property to sort the results by. You can sort by only one property at a time. The results are sorted in ascending order.

If the default view doesn't include the property you're sorting by, you can append the command with | Format-Table -Auto Property1,Property2,...PropertyX. to create a new view that contains all of the properties that you want to see. Wildcards (*) in the property names are supported.

You can sort by the following properties:

• Name
• DisplayName
• City
• FirstName
• LastName
• Office

Inputs

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To see the input types that this cmdlet accepts, see Cmdlet Input and Output Types. If the Input Type field for a cmdlet is blank, the cmdlet doesn't accept input data.

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Outputs

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To see the return types, which are also known as output types, that this cmdlet accepts, see Cmdlet Input and Output Types. If the Output Type field is blank, the cmdlet doesn't return data.