Can Domain Migration Administrator (DMA) merge on a Contact that has been created, manually or via a (NETIQKB13879)

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Can Domain Migration Administrator (DMA) merge on a Contact that has been created, manually or via a script, in Active Directory?

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Exchange Migrator 2.2 SP1

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Domain Migration Administrator 7.x

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Exchange Migrator 2.3

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Domain Migration Administrator (DMA) cannot merge on a Microsoft Exchange Contact. DMA determines conflicts by the samAccountName. By design, Contacts do not have a samAccountName.

There are two possible workarounds for this issue:

Option 1:

1. Use Exchange Migrator 2.2 SP1 (2.21) or later to migrate the mailboxes without the mailbox data.  Exchange Migrator will determine a conflict with the SMTP address and change the Contact to a mailbox enabled object.  This object will then have a samAccountName.
2. Migrate the user account with DMA, using the Replace and Update option to merge on the target account. 

Option 2:

1. Delete the target Contact.
2. Migrate the user account with DMA.
3. Use EMCLI DIRSYNC (or Microsoft Active Directory Connector) to mail enable the target user object.

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For more information on the EMCLI DIRSYNC utility included with Exchange Migrator, please refer to the following NetIQ Knowledge Base article:

NETIQKB1153:  What does the EMCLI DIRSYNC utility synchronize?

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Note:  The request for this type of functionality is being considered for a future release.  However, at this time there has been no decision made to include this feature.

Formerly known as NETIQKB13879