Specifying X.400 Addresses in the Primary Files

The "Formatting the Migration Files" topic in the Microsoft Exchange Server Migration Guide states a rule for enclosing multivalued fields within quotation marks. For X.400 addresses, that rule does not apply in certain cases. Instead, multivalued fields (such as distribution list members or e-mail addresses) that are separated by semicolons follow the following formatting conventions:

• The entire distribution list membership field must be within quotation marks.
• The e-mail address field that contains semi-colons must be within quotation marks.
• All quotation marks that are part of the field entry must be within quotation marks.

Note  These rules do not apply for fields separated by a slash ( / ).

For example:

dl,Friends,\\
"SMTP:mariab@litware.com;""X400:C=US;A= ;P=NWTraders;G=Joe;S=Parkes"""\\

To avoid the formatting rules with semicolons, you can specify X.400 addresses by using the slash ( / ) as shown in the following example:

dl,Friends,\\
SMTP:mariab@litware.com;X400:/C=US/A= /P=NWTraders/G=Joe/S=Parkes\\

Because of the formatting rules for X.400 addresses, the example in the Microsoft Exchange Server Migration Guide under "PAB Entries and Personal Distribution Lists" should read as follows:

PAB,PROFS:SANFRN/HOWARDS
Obj-class,Display-Name,Email-\\
Address,First,Last,Address,City,State,Zip,Country,Title,Company,Depart\\
ment,Office,Assistant,Bus-Num,Bus2-Num,Assist-Num,Fax-Num,Home-\\
Num,Home2-Num,Mobile-Num,Pager-Num,Note
entry,Pat Parkes,SMTP:patp@litware.com,Pat,Parkes,,,,,,,\\
"Litware,Inc.",,,,,,,,415-555-1212,,,,
entry,Dad,X400:/C=US/A= /P=NWTraders/G=Joe/S=Parkes,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
dl,My Friends,X400:/C=US/A= \\
/P=NWTraders/G=Joe/S=Parkes;SMTP:patp@litware.com,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,