Re: What is Best Practice for Changing Email Address Format?
- From: "Joe Richards [MVP]" <humorexpress@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:50:41 -0400
This is really an Exchange question but they would just tell you to use the GUI... ;)
You need to change the primary proxyaddress and the mail attribute of each user. The proxyaddresses are maintained in the attribute called...tada proxyaddresses. The primary SMTP address is the address with the capitalized SMTP: in front. The rest of the smtp addresses should all be smtp:. The mail attribute is called... mail.
The first thing you should do is change your recipient policy in Exchange to use the new format, go ask the exchange guys how to do that if you don't know how there is no reason to do that in a script as it is a one off.
So in order to change an address here is the steps you would follow if you want to script it.
1. delete the current primary SMTP address.
2. re-add the SMTP address that was just deleted but prefix with smtp: instead of SMTP:
3. add the new primary SMTP address with a prefix of SMTP:
4. change the mail attribute to the new smtp address, no prefix.
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razor wrote:
Hello--.
We are a company with about 65 mailboxes running on Exchange Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 and decided we want to change our email addresses from first name, first initial of last name, to first initial of first name and last name.
In active directory, all of our user names follow the email address format for network logon, etc. What are the ramifications of changing our email address formats? Is there is good KB article on this?
We would like to have the old email address accept email as well as the new email address for about a three month crossover, and then we want to no longer accept email addressed to the old addresses.
Any help on this would really be appreciated.
Many thanks,
sd
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