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Hi, sapa44.<br />
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This would require a service or program that would constantly monitor AD watching for new accounts being created. &nbsp;It's not impossible, but I'm not aware of any built-in means of doing this. &nbsp;A different approach would be to use a script to create the new accounts and in that script include a routine for sending the email. &nbsp;That actually seems to me like a much better approach since it provides a means for handling other automatic tasks associated with creating a new account. &nbsp;
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Hi, sapa44.

This would require a service or program that would constantly monitor AD watching for new accounts being created.  It's not impossible, but I'm not aware of any built-in means of doing this.  A different approach would be to use a script to create the new accounts and in that script include a routine for sending the email.  That actually seems to me like a much better approach since it provides a means for handling other automatic tasks associated with creating a new account.  

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Hi,<br />
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Thanks for the reply, I did think it might have to be a script. Any ideas as to how difficult this script would be? If its an big job I will have to grin and bear it the manual way. 
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Hi,

Thanks for the reply, I did think it might have to be a script. Any ideas as to how difficult this script would be? If its an big job I will have to grin and bear it the manual way.

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Thanks for your help, that looks like what I'm after. Will need to play with the script I think to get the right result.
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Thanks for your help, that looks like what I'm after. Will need to play with the script I think to get the right result.

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Is it possible to create a script, or install a program, which will send an email when a new user is created in Active Directory?<br />
When we set up a user, we have to send an email to our head office to create an aliase entry in thier mail server. Sendmail used to work with older versions of Exchange, but not with Exchange 2003.
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Is it possible to create a script, or install a program, which will send an email when a new user is created in Active Directory?
When we set up a user, we have to send an email to our head office to create an aliase entry in thier mail server. Sendmail used to work with older versions of Exchange, but not with Exchange 2003.

Automating emails from AD

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note-taker, journal, and web browser.

Outlook

An email client, email reader or more formally mail user agent (MUA) is a computer program in the category of groupware environments used to access and manage a user's email. A web application that provides message management, composition, and reception functions may internally act as an email client; as a whole, it is commonly referred to as webmail. Likewise, email client may be referred to a piece of computer hardware or software whose primary or most visible role is to work as an email client. Email clients can also have other systems, like calendars, notes and contact managers.