Create Users Mailboxes From Display Name

[kai91]

Can anyone help me, i am trying to create users mailboxes by there display name is Exchange 2007 instead of their username?

Thanks

[old_n07]

Is it that you want the name to be Joe Bloggs in the GAL rather than joe.bloggs even though the email address is [email protected]?

[kai91]

At current the user mailbox is created from there username for example username is 03lastnamef so their email would be [email protected] but we want to change our usernames to student id's such as s0150592 but have the mail boxes created with [email protected]

[old_n07]

If you are using powershell to create the accounts you can do something like

 

$user = Get-ADUser some.user

$name = $user.GivenName + "." + $User.Surname

Enable-mailbox -Identity $user.SAMAccountName -Alias $name

 

I haven't tested the above but we use something similar pulling the variable from an input page when creating staff accounts.

 

This link explains the enable mailbox PS command

 

You will need to check for duplicates when using first.lastname email addresses too

[bart21]

you can create an email address policy to do this as standard, think the option would be %g.%[email protected] etc

 

cant remember the PS off the top of my head

 

nick

Edited July 6, 2012 by bart21

[sukh]

simply create an email address policy to do this.

[Arthur]

As already mentioned above, create an e-mail address policy. I created ours via PowerShell because we wanted the e-mail address to be in lowercase...

 

New-EmailAddressPolicy -Name 'Default E-mail Policy' -EnabledEmailAddressTemplate 'SMTP:%rAa%rBb%rCc%rDd%rEe%rFf%rGg%rHh%rIi%rJj%rKk%rLl%rMm%rNn%rOo%rPp%rQq%rRr%rSs%rTt%rUu%rVv%rWw%rXx%rYy%rZz%1g%[email protected]' -RecipientFilter {((RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox') -and (Company -eq 'School Name'))}

 

^ E-mail address format = ForenameInitialSurname@school.county.sch.uk