SKIP THIS POST and head over to Five and a half ways to find an email address in Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory, a comprehensive post that shows all the ways you can find an email address in Active Directory.
(OK, if you must really know, we merged content from this post with a previous post which shows you how to find a recipient with a specified email address using ADUC‘s Saved Queries feature.)
Using CSVDE/LDIFDE to find an email address:Saved Queries isn’t available in the Windows 2000 version of ADUC. You can also use CSVDE or LDIFDE to export this information to a file, using the following command:
csvde -f outputfilename.csv -d “dc=domain,dc=com” -r “(&(mailnickname=*)(proxyAddresses=smtp:[email protected]))” -l name
Replace “dc=domain,dc=com” with your AD domain name and suffix, and [email protected] with the exact email address you’re looking for.
To find all recipients who have an email address from a particular SMTP domain, you can use a wildcard, e.g.:
csvde -f outputfilename.csv -d “dc=domain,dc=com” -r “(&(mailnickname=*)(proxyAddresses=smtp:*@domain.com))” -l name
In the above example, only the name field is exported. All CSVDE/LDIFDE queries also return the object’s distinguishedName. To add more fields to the list, insert a coma after name and type new field names separated by a coma: e.g.
name,displayName,sAMAccountName,proxyAddresses,homeMDB
Finding email addresses using the Exchange shell (Exchange 2010/2007): The Exchange 2010/2007 shell makes it easier (once you familiarize yourself with shell basics). To get a list of all recipients with email addresses from a particular domain:
get-recipient | where {$_.emailaddresses -match “domain.com”} | select name,emailaddresses
To get a list of recipients with a particular email address:
get-recipient | where {$_.emailaddresses -match “[email protected]”} | select name,emailaddresses
Changes:
- 01/03/2007: Changed title, added Update to differentiate from previous post with same title
- 12/03/2007: Content from this post merged into the previous post HOW TO: Find an email address in Active Directory.
User AD accounts going to expire in 10 days. Can the AD send an notification email to that particular user everyday at 12mn?
I noticed that many shortcuts on discovering someone’e email address are given, but why not go through an easier and specifically dedicated email locating program? I mean there are literally hundreds of them out there, and many times they can save you hours of searching with tricks. I went to
http://howtofindsomeonesemailaddress.wikidot.com/ to find out my info on using email locaters properly, but most of the others out there are also credible and well worth a look. Just my $.02
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Just saved me loads of searching – worked perfect.
many thanks
I realize that this is quite an old post but really needed some help on this one.
Is there any way I could use the below command, as mentioned by you, to search for existing accounts using a csv file that I already have which I received from my HR. This csv list has all the ex-employees with their email addresses.
“get-recipient | where {$_.emailaddresses -match “[email protected]”} | select name,emailaddresses”
Basically I would like to compare this HR list to see if those ex-employees still have existing mailboxes in exchange.
Perfect
Wow that was odd. I just wrote an extremely long comment but after I
clicked submit my comment didn’t show up. Grrrr…
well I’m not writing all that over again.
Anyhow, just wanted to say excellent blog!
I couldn’t resist commenting. Exceptionally well written!