Changing Exchange 2003 Aliases

[JPJeffery]

In our domain of about 120 users we have a significant number of accounts with malformed aliases.

e.g. instead of John Doe getting 'Doe_J' it might be 'John Doe', or 'J Doe', or perhaps even 'DoeJ'.

The challenge is this. Would it be quicker to check through them manually, or to write a script to do it? I reckon do it manually...(particularly if we want to test it first!)

JJ
[small][purple]Variables won't. Constants aren't[/purple]
There is no apostrophe in the plural of PC (or PST, or CPU, or HDD, or FDD, and so on)[/small]

 

[djtech2k]

I am guessing that by malformed you mean it should match something like the username and they dont? If so, then a script is the way to go and it is quite an easy script to complete.

 

[JPJeffery]

Well, I mean our standard (now scripted so not a problem in the future) is for the alias to be made up of

<surname>_<first_letter_of_first_name)

(which happens to match our account naming standard) but a lot of previously, and manually, created accounts have aliases which don't match that standard.

JJ
[small][purple]Variables won't. Constants aren't[/purple]
There is no apostrophe in the plural of PC (or PST, or CPU, or HDD, or FDD, and so on)[/small]

 

[djtech2k]

Well that would be easy to do. Read AD, then set the value if it does not match your logic.