How does Exchange 2007 email policy handle duplicate names in AD? We have it set to add FirstInitialLastname@domain as their primary but also FirstInitialMiddleInitialLastname@domain. If there were two Fwiliams, how would exchange assign the emails? Can we configure exchange to set their main reply email as FirstInitialMiddleInitialLastname@domain ONLY if there exist a user with the same First initial and Last name? Any help is grateful. Thank you.

By default, Exchange will create a "FWiliams02" alias. You would need to go through the accounts and change it to "FDWiliams" manually to change it to the FinitialMInitialLName configuration. If you do %1g%1i%s, ALL mailboxes will get the first initial middle initial last name alias.

Thank you. I wish there was a type of "IF" statement on the policy where we can say "IF the name is a duplicate, Add middle Initial"

It'd be nice, and considering how infrequently the data changes, you'd think it wouldn't be hideously hard to implement. However, there's never been underlying processing of that sort in the system. s-:

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:35:02 +0000, essejc wrote: >I wish there was a type of "IF" statement on the policy where we can say "IF the name is a duplicate, Add middle Initial" And what if there's no "middle initial"? I don't think there's such a property in the AD schema. There's "initials" and there's "middleName", but no "middleInitial". Are you confusing the "initials" (note the plural) property with something else? --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP