As of today, the Get-Contact and Set-Contact cmdlets in Exchange Online are used to view and manage 2 Recipient Types: Contact (non-mailable contacts without an SMTP address) and MailContact. Followi...
Published Oct 07, 2025
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Updates to Get-Contact and Set-Contact Cmdlets for “Contacts” Recipient Type in Exchange Online
Just to be clear: the deprecation only applies to Contact recipient types, not to the actual Get-Contact and Set-Contact cmdlets, right?
Otherwise, this would block the ability to get or set directory-level attributes like first name, last name, company etc. on MailContact objects (since those are only accessible via Get-Contact/Set-Contact).
Vivek
Microsoft
MicrosoftYes, your understanding is right. The current change is only with respect to the Contact recipient type and does not deprecate the Get/Set-Contact cmdlet.
Post deprecation of the Contact recipient type, we do have the plan to provide ability to manage all properties of a MailContact through the Get/Set-MailContact cmdlet thus removing dependency on the Get/Set-Contact cmdlet. However, we will inform everyone when that is done.