Aliases and SMTP address 2

[PhilKGH]

The SMTP address seems to be automatically generated in the format alias@domain, where domain is specified under site addressing. In our case, the bit in front of the @ symbol needs to be firstname.surname, ie different from the alias. Is there a way to specify the bit in front of the @ symbol so it automatically generates it correctly, rather than using the alias?

Regards,
Phil.

 

[evz]

THe Alias is automatically generated from the settings in the Exchnage administrator

In the exchange Administrator, Click on Tools, options - and this will bring up the Autonaming options for the Alias and also the display name generation. Just choose which one you want.

if you want firstname.surname@domain.dom, then the entry for alias should be %first.%last

Hope this helps.

YOu can of course change the addresses manually by modifying each mailbox in turn.

 

[PhilKGH]

Our alias needs to be in a specific format due to the requirements of a service we submit our address book to. This format is not firstname.surname@ourdomain, as is required for the SMTP address. My question is, is there a way of separately specifying the SMTP address independent of the alias?

 

[zbnet]

In your site addressing, specify the SMTP address as %g.%s@domain.com, and this will generate new SMTP addresses according to your requirement, without using the Alias field - this can stay exactly as you want it to.

When you alter the site addressing, Exchange will ask whether you want to kick off a job to rename all existing recipient's SMTP addresses accordingly. If you don't want it to do this, you can recreate SMTP addresses for your existing users via bulk Directory Import.

 

[PhilKGH]

Thanks ZBNET, that works fine. Saves a lot of time in editing the SMTP address.

Phil.

 

[nanis0n]

Does anyone here know if there is a way to configure more than ONE SMTP address to be auto-generated on account creation? We have a situation where each user needs 3 different SMTP addresses for each account. We can add them individually during account creation, but I don't see where we can add additional SMTP addresses under the Site Addressing Properties.

Thanks for any help you can provide!
Nancy

 

[Marcs41]

If the domain(s) are in your Default recipient policy AND the user setting are flagged to inherit these, you will have the automatically.

Marc
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[nanis0n]

Yes, but I need to have 3 SMTP elements in Configuration Containter/Site Addressing/Site Addressing. They will all three be in the same domain.

Example:
nancy.frank@mydomain.com
frankn@mydomain.com
nfrank@mydomain.com

Any thoughts?
Thanks for your last quick post!
Nancy

 

[Marcs41]

Oh, you meant 3 aliases for the same domain.
That won't work, sorry, unless maybe with some server-side programming, but that is a totally different topic.

Marc
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[zbnet]

Or you could write a script (perl, vbs, etc etc) that would process a nightly export of the GAl, check for all the required SMTP aliases, and add them in if required via directory import or similar.