We also delete the exchangeLegacyDN value as well so that it gets regenerated with the current username.  This has the downside of people not being able to reply to old emails from the person, but I think it makes more sense that they can’t reply to the old name.  Also, I create a distribution list named the old username and add the new username to it.  In fact we do this in all cases instead of creating secondary smtp addresses.  It makes it easier for us to find which accounts have multiple addresses and also allows us to add multiple people to the same ‘proxy address’.

 

On a side note, I always make the distribution lists a security group on the odd chance that I’d ever want to be able to use it as such.  Is there any downside to this?  It doesn’t seem to cause any problems.

 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Account Name Change

 

Rename the account. Sam Name etc on the AD object. Home Dir name (and if that is the share name, don't forget to change that in AD as well).

 

If running Exchange you will want to add the old email address to proxyaddresses as a smtp secondary (lowercase smtp) and set the mailnickname,mail,and primary smtp proxy to be the new email address.

 

  joe

 

 

 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Hummert
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 3:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir] Account Name Change

I recently had someone in my office get married and thus change their name. Last time this happened, I just created a new account in AD and moved the files and other important stuff from the old account to the new account. I was just wondering, is there an easier way to do this? Am I reinventing the wheel here? What do other people do in this situation?

 

Thanks

-Chris

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