We are migrating users from GroupWise into Exchange 2003. The unique username from GroupWise is maintained as the username in Exchange. As each user account is created we have a recipient policy that adds a secondary SMTP address with the format firstname.lastname@domain.com. This works perfectly until we get someone with a duplicate name (eg. John Smith). The first John Smith will get an automatically generated email address of John.Smith@domain.com. Is there a way to put something in the recipient policy to add an incrementingtiebreaker so that the next John Smith that joins the system will get an email address something like John.Smith2@domain.com?

Hi Bruce, The John.Smith2@domain.com email address will be created automatically without needing to add an incrementing tiebreaker if another John Smith is added to the domain. Mike

When I add a second John Smith (with a unique username) I get the following error message: Windows cannot create the new user object because the name Smith, John is already in use. Select another name, and try again.

Upon closer examiniation I'm seeing that the John.Smith2@domain.com email addess is being created for the second John Smith. BUT the second John Smith must be created in a different OU than the one containing the original John Smith. I guess I will have to create a new thread elsewhere in TechNet.

Yes, Bruce, you cannot create John Smith again in the same OU. Nevertheless, you can add the Initials name such as John T. Smith. Mike