Renaming users 1

[danmb]

Hi,

I am new to Exchange 5.5.

Several people have left the organization and have been replaced. It should be a simple, common, straightforward task to rename the mailboxes. But I've been searching the online resources (

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/en/55/help/toc/toc.asp

, etc), and I have yet to find any help.

Anyone know where I can find a description of the steps involved to rename mailboxes?

Exchange 5.5 server running on NT 4.0 with exchange extensions installed in user manager, Outlook clients on 98/ME/2000 Pro PC's.

Thanks,
Dan

 

[Timebomb]

If you first re-name the user account in NT, that will change their log-on. From there, in the Exchange Manager, hit the accounts that you need to change, the General Tab lets you change how they are viewed. Go to the E-Mail addresses tab, change their e-mail addresses.

It works. What we usually do is that when someone leaves, I give my account permissions to that user's e-mail. Open it, export all items to a .PST file. I have now captured their e-mail. Delete their account. Take their current address and assign it as an alias to that person's manager, or you could make it an alias to their replacement. This gives their replacement a clean account. We ask the person to please notify contacts that the e-mail address has changed. Every couple of months we check our alias list and notify people, "Hey, you still have these e-mail addresses, can we delete any?"

Hope this helps.



Tom Backus
Network Administrator
Hitchcock Industries
Bloomington, Minnesota.
backust@hitchcockusa.com