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Thanks Simon,<br />
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I agree with your suggestion and I'm going to accept the answer. &nbsp;I'll post another question on automating the procedure unless you have a quick reference for me as to how to do it with scripting, dsmod, etc.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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Tom
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Thanks Simon,

I agree with your suggestion and I'm going to accept the answer.  I'll post another question on automating the procedure unless you have a quick reference for me as to how to do it with scripting, dsmod, etc.

Thanks,

Tom

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Hello Experts,<br />
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We are Exchange 2003 SP2 and Outlook 2003. &nbsp;We currently have Exchange mailboxes for all of our store managers. &nbsp;They access these mailboxes through OWA in Citrix. &nbsp;Each of the accounts/mailboxes are named with their own name. &nbsp;It works very well.<br />
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We want to go to generic mailboxes instead of named ones. &nbsp;This provides us with many advantages. &nbsp;I tried just renaming the mailbox of a test account and it appeared to work just fine. &nbsp;I could rename account, exchange alias, display name, default e-mail. &nbsp;After looking with ADSI Edit, the only thing that remained the old name was the Legacy Exchange DN. &nbsp;I don't think that would have any effect on just accessing the mailbox through OWA, which seemed to work fine.<br />
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Am I missing anything? &nbsp;Are there any caveats you can think of?<br />
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Thanks for your time.<br />
<br />
Tom
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Hello Experts,

We are Exchange 2003 SP2 and Outlook 2003.  We currently have Exchange mailboxes for all of our store managers.  They access these mailboxes through OWA in Citrix.  Each of the accounts/mailboxes are named with their own name.  It works very well.

We want to go to generic mailboxes instead of named ones.  This provides us with many advantages.  I tried just renaming the mailbox of a test account and it appeared to work just fine.  I could rename account, exchange alias, display name, default e-mail.  After looking with ADSI Edit, the only thing that remained the old name was the Legacy Exchange DN.  I don't think that would have any effect on just accessing the mailbox through OWA, which seemed to work fine.

Am I missing anything?  Are there any caveats you can think of?

Thanks for your time.

Tom

Rename AD Account and Mailbox

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