We are creating a new Exchange 2007Environment / AD Forest and have been tossing multiple naming standards around.None of them seem sustainable for long term growth. Does anyone have a suggestion for a company that may reach 10,000 mailboxes / Users within the next 5 years? Firstname.LastnameFirstInitialLastnameetc, etc....

On Mon, 23-Nov-09 03:27:30 GMT, RAMPAIGE68 wrote:>We are creating a new Exchange 2007 Environment / AD Forest and have been tossing multiple naming standards around. None of them seem sustainable for long term growth. Does anyone have a suggestion for a company that may reach 10,000 mailboxes / Users within the next 5 years? Firstname.LastnameFirstInitialLastnameetc, etc.... Naming standards for what? For AD User objects? How does the companyidentify its employees? Is there a problem using that ID as the nameof the account? names are separate to the name of the AD object. Most placesget along just fine with "Surname, GivenName". You'll run into theoccasional duplication but unless you run into a preponderance of"Smith, John", or "Foreman, George", I don't think you'll find allthat many duplicates.Email addresses can either be an alias (which can be different to theaccount name) or first.last@domain.tld. Again, the amount ofduplication is usually pretty small.Ten-thousand mailboxes is still towards the low end of the mid-sizedcompany range. I used to work at a multinational company with aboutthree times that number of mailboxes and the "last, first" worked outpretty well for display names, and "first.last@domain.tld" didn'tcause any problems for email addresses.---Rich MatheisenMCSE+I, Exchange MVP--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Thank you sir - without history it's very difficult to be descriptive in newsgroups. We are about to start a domain migration of 5 domains down to one. All domains have separate Usernames / e-mail standards. first.last, firstilast, lastfirst.middle.. The Marketing department is trying to dictate email address scheme and I was making sure we have a sustainable solution moving forward. Thank you for your time.