Re: User gets married, changes name & wants log-in changed

Hi Doug,

You want to do a few things:

You can do the rename in ADUC. Change her samaccountname and UPN on the
account tab of the user. My suggestion is not to change her email but rather
to add jsmith as a second address so that jdoe continues to function. To do
this hit hte email addresses tab, add a new SMTP address,
jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx, and hit the make primary button.

Your user will not get a new profile.

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Thanks,
Brian Desmond
Windows Server MVP - Directory Services

www.briandesmond.com


"Doug Starkey" <doug_starkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:doug_starkey-8C0474.15012910102006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm sure I cannot be alone in this but I can't find anything addressing
this issue.

I have a user. She got married and changed her name (Let's say she was
"Jane Doe" and her log-in "jdoe" and her e-mail is "jdoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx")

Now she got married and has legally changed her name to Jane Smith. She
wants her log-in & email to reflect these changes (eg: Jane Smith with a
log-in of "jsmith" and an e-mail of "jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx). I want all
her e-mail and documents and settings to follow her.

Do I simply just "rename" her user account in Active Directory and
"poof" everything is hunky-dory? I know better. I know on her normal,
local machine, she's going to get a new user profile and NONE of her
documents or local preferences are going to "move" to the new account. I
don't have a clue what will happen with her Exchange account when I make
this change.

Has anyone else done this? Do you have a "step-by-step" guide? Or is
there some knowledgebase document hidden away at MS support? I searched
but I can't bear to sift through the 100,000+ hits I get on "Change user
name".

Any and all help appreciated.

Doug Starkey
Network Administrator
Pecan Deluxe Candy Company

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Doug Starkey
Network Administrator
Pecan Deluxe Candy Company
nethead@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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