Re: Simple Admin question

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The two things AD and Exchange care about are the user's login ID and their
email address. Only one of each can exist.

I also concur with Ben here: Revisit your naming policy, as most coompanies
use first initial last name or last name first initial. In our location we
user the first five letters of the last name followed by the first letter of
the first name and when we have the identical userid issue we simply add,
incrimentally, a number to the end of the ID. (I.E. John Fernando & Jim
Fernando: fernaj & fernaj2)

Good luck.

Frank

"Ben Winzenz [Exchange MVP]" wrote:

> I'd re-visit your current username policy. As you are seeing, having a
> first name as the logon isn't necessarily the best decision. Most companies
> will end up using firstinitiallastname (i.e. dsmith). There may still be
> issues, but you're less likely to run into this problem.
>
> As far as your question, though, yes that is correct. Windows/Exchange do
> not care about the First name or Last name (or Display name for that
> matter). The Full Name must be unique, and obviously, logon name must be
> unique. As long as you cover those, you'll be ok.
>
> --
> Ben Winzenz
> Exchange MVP
> MessageOne
>
>
> "Adam Raff" <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:uxsLrn8rFHA.3444@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Good Day,
> >
> > We have an exchange server running 2003 on an Windows 2003 Server with in
> > a single domain.
> >
> > Now the question which I think I already have the answer but just never
> > happened to me before.
> >
> > We have a user Called Dorothy Smith, who has a logon called Dorothy (we
> > logon with first name) which is in our system and has a valid email
> > account Dorothy_Smith@xxxxxxxx
> >
> > Today I need to add another uses Called Dorothy Cat, now I know I can not
> > have the same login name so I would enter her account as is but in the
> > user login name I would create DorothyC and her pre windows account will
> > also be DorothyC? Is this correct?
> >
> > Now her email account will be Dorothy_Cat@xxxxxxx which is our standard
> > first name then last name.
> >
> > I guess what I am trying to make sure is the following. What do I need to
> > do to make sure I do not have any issues in exchange and windows when I
> > have two people with the same first name? What do I have to watch out
> > for?
> >
> > I believe I have the answer since the last names are not the same and as
> > long as the user login name is different then the other user login name
> > then there should not be a problem with logon. On the exchange side since
> > the last name is different Smith and Cat then that should not cause an
> > issue. I hope I am explaining this right.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Adam Raff
> >
>
>
>
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