Unable to delete Exchange contacts via Powershell

Asked Dec 16 '20 at 07:24

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I have some contacts that I cannot remove. I don't know how they got in this state, or how to solve the problem.

If I use:

Get-Contact

The names are listed. If I use:

Get-MailContact

They are not. What this means is that

Remove-MailContact -Identity <blah>

Throws an error:

The operation couldn't be performed because object '<blah>' couldn't be found on <exchange server>

If I inspect the problem contacts using:

Get-Contact -Identity <blah> | fl

I find that these values are the different ones

RecipientType            : Contact
RecipientTypeDetails     : Contact

Correct MailContacts have the value "MailContact" in these fields.

How can I delete these contacts?

edited Dec 17 '20 at 00:28

asked Dec 16 '20 at 07:24

MikeBerriman

Please [edit] your question to include [example] of your code, . See [ask] – Gander Dec 16 '20 at 07:59
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I've tried to reformat - is that any better? – MikeBerriman Dec 17 '20 at 00:28
Do you get the same error if you pipe Get-Contact into Remove-MailContact? For example, `Get-Contact -Identity | Remove-MailContact -Confirm:$false` – leeharvey1 Dec 19 '20 at 19:05

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