Re: Swapping email accounts

I'm sorry, I guess I didn't make myself clear on this.

It's not exactly that the user is getting the "wrong email account," at
least to someone who knows something about computers. You would expect that
if two people logon to the same computer, using the same credentials, they
would get the exact same profile, email, etc... That's what's going on
here. They seem to expect that when John sits down at Mary's computer, and
logs on with Mary's credentials that since the person is John, he would get
his own environment. Sorry, I guess the sarcasm of the "surprise" didn't
come through.

The systems "remember" the last person to logon to each computer.

Right now, JDoe sits down at computer1 and does a <Ctrl><Alt><Del>. He does
not type in his user name, which is User1, since the computer "remembers"
it. He only has to enter the password. He has his email when he brings up
Outlook. Same situation at computer2 with MSmith.

What the company wants is for MSmith to sit down at computer1, and have her
continue to logon as User1, where she only has to enter her password, and
when she opens Outlook, it brings up her email. Of course, the simplest
thing would be to have her logon as User2, and computer1 would then
"remember" User2 as the default user for the next time the <Ctrl><Alt><Del>
is pressed.

I realize that I will need to deal with the Outlook profiles, but I don't
think that roaming profiles would help here, as the same AD account would
always be used to logon to any specific computer.

The problem is that the client does NOT want to do that... They want the AD
account User1 to always logon to Computer1, User2 to logon to Computer2,
etc, no matter who's been assigned to that computer, and they want that
specific person's email account to come up.

I hope I've made my problem a bit more clear.

Thanks,

Mark

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" <mark@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:sttse1ho8aj8uq8oatgptn3m2tvcv5l0jd@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:50:56 -0500, "Mark Levy"
> <Mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I've got a client who insists on doing some thing the really hard way.
> >
> >My client has all their users logon to the domain as User1, User2, User3,
> >etc... But each user's email address and mailbox is their first initial,
> >last name: JDoe@xxxxxxxxxxx, MSmith@xxxxxxxxxxx, etc. Now, here's the
> >problem. The company has decided that User1, JDoe, needs to swap
computers
> >with User2, MSmith. Now that they've done that, they find that when
User1
> >logs on to User2's former computer, User1 gets MSmith's email, and when
> >User2 logs on to User1's old computer User2 get's JDoe's email. Big
> >surprise, right?
>
> yes, a big surprise. The profiles will need to be created, once, for
> User1 on User2's machine, but you shouldn't get the wrong mail by
> default.
> >
> >Of course, the simple thing to do would have JDoe continue logging on as
> >User1 on this "new" computer, and have MSmith logon as User2 on her new
> >computer... But that would be too simple. What they want is to keep the
> >User ID associated with the computer, so anyone logging on the that first
> >computer would always logon as User1...
> >
> >So, what I would like to know is how one goes about "swapping" email
> >accounts, so that MSmith can logon to the first computer as User1, but
get
> >her email, and the same thing with JDoe, when he logs on as User2...
> >
> >I guess what I'm asking is, "is there a way to disassociate a mailbox
from
> >the AD account, then reassociate it with a different one?"
>
> I don't think you need to do that?
> Check up on profiles (possibly even roaming ones) for the users so
> that they can log onto any computer as any user they want (or are
> entitled to) and get the email they had on the machine they just
> walked away from.
>
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >Mark
> >
>


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