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Receipient Name not pulling correctly from Exchange Server 2003

I have Exchange Server 2003. One of my users had a last name change several months ago. I noticed that in Outlook 2003 when you type in part of the name her name appears but is still showing the old name; i.e. The user's name is Mary Smith (her last name use to be Jones). When I type in "Mary" in Outlook 2003 all the names that start with Mary appear and her name shows: Mary Smith <jones> -- Where is it pulling the name in brackets from?? I have checked the user settings on my Exchange Server and the one place I did still see it was in the E-Mail Addresses. The "X400" string showed the old name and I edited it to correct it -- but the name still appears as explained. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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mmj1

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Thanks for the quick response. I thought it might be store in my Outlook so I hit the delete key on the autofill and selected the name again from the "to" list (her name is displayed correctly there). I also checked the General tab on Exchange and her name is displayed there correctly as well. It is only the name in parenthesis that is incorrect. I don't know where it is pulling that name from.

ATIG

what is listed under that alias?
has the user login account been changed to match the new name?

mmj1

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The "Alias" field under the "Exchange General" tab on the Exchange Server shows the correct name -- the one I want to display. The user does log in with her "new" name as well. Another place I still see the wrong last name is under the Mailbox listing on Veritas Backup Exec -- the mailbox it is backing up shows: Mary Smith [jones] .....

mmj1

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ATIG, I have come to the conclusion that the name in brackets <name> is hard coded when the user is created. I had a tech come in the office and we worked with this for sometime until finally we just created a new user and used exmerge to copy the user's folders into the newly created user. Thanks for all of your input!

ATIG

cool thx