Except that recreating the mailbox breaks all reply to's for internal users, unless you also carry over the Exchange DN style address from the old box. Personally, that's more work than I want to take, so I'd suggest continuing to rename and add the additional SMTP alias.
Not to mention, replication is replication, regardless of whether the mailbox is deleted or renamed, so there's no advantage to doing it the way you suggest, other than having the "correct" DN that is. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 3:46 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: Changing Mailbox name > > > > I have a user that has gotten married, and her name has to > be changed. > > Does anyone know the procedure of doing this. I was under the > > impression that if i just changed her name in the display > and the SMTP > > address on Exchange Server, that would have done it, but it was > > brought to me that there was a correct way of doing it. I really > > appreciate you help. > > > > Thank you > > That will work, but depending on the size of your directory, > number of sites, etc., it can take awhile for replication to > complete. It's sometimes easier - again, depending on the > size of your overall Exchange infrastructure - to export the > mail to a .pst and create an entirely new mailbox, remove the > old one, and add her old email address as a secondary SMTP > address. If yours is a small infrastructure, it won't matter > too much, but be sure you change alias and directory name as > well as adding the new SMTP address. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
