Add description to AD contact and bulk add description for contacts - Active Directory PowerShell

Add description to AD contact- Active Directory PowerShell

To update a single contact with description

Get-adobject -filter {mail -eq  "user@domain.com"} | set-adobject -description "contract employee"

Bulk add description for contacts

Create a csv file (contact_desc.csv) for the contacts with their external email address and description. The Column names as in the below snapshot . Open Active directory powershell as an administrator and run the below command to update the contacts with description.

$users = Import-Csv contact_desc.csv

foreach($user in $users)

{

$ExternalEmailAddresses=$User.ExternalEmailAddress

$des1=$user.des

Get-adobject -filter {mail -eq $ExternalEmailAddresses} | set-adobject -description $des1

}