Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition
by Jonas Andersson, Nuno Mota, Mike Pfeiffer
How it works...
Mail contacts are useful when you have external email recipients that need to show up in your global address list. When you use the New-MailContact cmdlet, an Active Directory contact object is created and mail-enabled with the external email address assigned. You can mail-enable an existing Active Directory contact using the EnablemailContact cmdlet.
Mail users are similar to mail contacts in that they have an associated external email address. The difference is that these objects are mail-enabled Active Directory users, and that explains why we needed to assign a password when creating the object.
You might use a mail user for a contractor who works onsite in your organization and needs to be able to log on to your domain. ...
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