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Not what I wanted to hear, but that's what I expected you to say :-(<br />
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I'll wait a day or 2 to see if someone else has another opinion before I close this out.
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Not what I wanted to hear, but that's what I expected you to say :-(

I'll wait a day or 2 to see if someone else has another opinion before I close this out.

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no worries mate - i hope im wrong for ya!!! &nbsp; double checked with my mate who is an AD god and he said the same thing<br />
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cheers mate
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no worries mate - i hope im wrong for ya!!!   double checked with my mate who is an AD god and he said the same thing

cheers mate

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We were wondering if there's a way in Windoze 2003 to create a user alias? The idea would be that the same user could log in with 2 different names. The reason for this is that we are using token authentication with IAS, and we don't want the user to have 2 tokens.<br />
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The reason for the 2 user IDs is because the user's current one is more than 8 characters and they want to set up token authentication to a device that limits the user id to 8 characters. Setting up an alias would be an alternative to making them change their user ID on all the other systems they manage to accomodate the one that limits them to 8 characters.
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We were wondering if there's a way in Windoze 2003 to create a user alias? The idea would be that the same user could log in with 2 different names. The reason for this is that we are using token authentication with IAS, and we don't want the user to have 2 tokens.

The reason for the 2 user IDs is because the user's current one is more than 8 characters and they want to set up token authentication to a device that limits the user id to 8 characters. Setting up an alias would be an alternative to making them change their user ID on all the other systems they manage to accomodate the one that limits them to 8 characters.

Is there a way to crerate a user alias?

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).