Re: User alias in Exchange 2003 is displayed incorrectly

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Are you looking at a copy of the GAL on a cached-mode Outlook client? If
so, four things have to happen--and in this order--before recipients show up
in the GAL in Outlook 2003 with cached mode:
1. The object or change must replicate to the domain controller the RUS
uses.

2. The RUS must run and stamp the user with Exchange attributes.

3. The offline address book must be generated. This is a scheduled activity.

4. Outlook 2003 must synchronize itself with the offline address book. This
is directed by Outlook.

--
Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

"LincolnIT" <LincolnIT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D605EC61-39C9-4305-99B0-9C77EC43FA42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a user whose exchange alias is incorrectly displayed as User123456
(something of this format), I checked her Exchange General tab and though
it
did not display as User123456, it did have the same alias as another user
with the same name first name but spelled differently.

So now that the confusion was fixed, I noticed that the user is still
displayed in the GAL as User123456. I have tried forcing an update of the
GAL, deleting the entry in Outlook's automatic dropdown address list on
several computers, and even trying to change the alias to the users full
name.

Where is this alias format coming from? Is there a way to edit this entry
other than in AD Users and Computers->Exchange General tab?


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