Having read another question and answers on these forums about Exchange aliases, I am still unclear as to their purpose. I am not an Exchange (2007 on Server 2003R2 SP2) manager, I simply have responsibility for the users in my buildings AFA AD and Exchange so technical answers may be above my head yet I need to know enough so that I don't mess up other functions in AD/Exchange and other parts of our network. My scenario: User (John Smith) that I want to have a Windows log on of jsmith but his email cannot be jsmith, I want it to be mrsmith. I want to make sure that he shows up in the Global Address Book as John Smith = mrsmith@abc.xyz. I don't really care how he logs onto Outlook and OWA as long as I know what it is so I can tell him and get him set up. His AD account is jsmith. Using the Exchange Management Console, currently the alias is mrsmith. email adress is listed as mrsmith@abc.xyz and mrsmith@exchange.abc.xyz Is this the correct set up to make sure that his account functions as needed on our network, that he can get mail to mrsmith@abc.xyz and that other Exchange users will be able to find him in the Global Address Book. Do I need to worry about anything else? Thank you in advance for your assistance. Kim Ferraro

Hi, This seems ok to me for the requirement u discussed. As far as OWA login is concerned it is either the UserPrincipalName or ADDomain\SamAccountName. U can see the UserPrincipalName and SamAccountName properties of this mailbox using Get-Mailbox mrsmith |FL UserPrincipalName,SamAccountName Regards,Laeeq Qazi|Team Lead(Exchange + Sharepoint + BES + DynamicsCRM) www.HostingController.com

On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 08:42:02 +0000, kferraro wrote: >Having read another question and answers on these forums about Exchange aliases, I am still unclear as to their purpose. They serve the same purpose as an alias does in the real world -- it's just another name to be known by. The AD property name for the "alias" is mailNickname. That should give you another way to think about what it's used for. >I am not an Exchange (2007 on Server 2003R2 SP2) manager, I simply have responsibility for the users in my buildings AFA AD and Exchange so technical answers may be above my head yet I need to know enough so that I don't mess up other functions in AD/Exchange and other parts of our network. My scenario: User (John Smith) that I want to have a Windows log on of jsmith but his email cannot be jsmith, Okay. So his "account" is "jsmith". The name of the AD user ofject is "John Smith". >I want it to be mrsmith. Here, you should find out how your Exchange organization generates e-mail addresses. Your Exchange admin should be able to tell you whether they use the alias to generate the SMTP address or if they use some other format, like "firstname.lastname@...". >I want to make sure that he shows up in the Global Address Book as John Smith = mrsmith@abc.xyz. If Exchange generates primary SMTP addresses (i.e. the one that will appear on e-mail created by John Smit) using the alias then make the alias property value "mrsmith". Assuming there's no other mrsmith@abc.xyz in your Exchange organization you'll be good to go. >I don't really care how he logs onto Outlook and OWA as long as I know what it is so I can tell him and get him set up. His AD account is jsmith. Then he'll logon as either domain\jsmith or mrsmith@abc.xyz (if that's his UPN). But this is really something your Exchange admins should be explaining to you. They know how the Exchange organization is configured . . . out here we can only guess. >Using the Exchange Management Console, currently the alias is mrsmith. email adress is listed as mrsmith@abc.xyz and mrsmith@exchange.abc.xyz Is this the correct set up to make sure that his account >functions as needed on our network, that he can get mail to mrsmith@abc.xyz and that other Exchange users will be able to find him in the Global Address Book. That'll work. >Do I need to worry about anything else? I'd worry about why you had to ask these questions here instead of asking the people that run the Exchange organization in your company! --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP