SBS 2003 change login names

Renaming user accounts is bad. Better to create a new account. You can export their mail and reimport it and forklift their user data before deleting the old account. It is also possible to just connect their mail store to the new account but you will encounter fewer issues by just exporting/importing.

Then add an email alias for their old email address so they still get their old emails and contacts get updated through replies.

I was afraid you were going to say that.  Thanks anyways.

hypercat,
I appreciate your input and I am certainly willing to try it.
But, maybe casedog21 can tell me some problems he had run into that would make this not a good idea.

Thanks,
Paul

If they're not picky about their usernames, you can just update their email addresses and names while keeping the username the same.  Just open up the user in AD Users and Computeres and change the name information on the General tab and add a new SMTP email address under the Exchange tab.  Once you do that, just select the new email address and set as primary.

The only thing that won't change is the username they use to log into windows.  External users will see their new names in email and their email address.

Just another option.

They are certainly picky about usernames.

If they are picky, just make them new accounts in AD and give them access to there old docs and email.

When they moan that something doesn't work, just state it's because you needed to start from scratch.

It is really too much hassle to create new accounts etc.. If it was me I would change the display name, the user object in AD and add an additional SMTP address.

Another way would be to change the logon details and then amend profile mappings and permissions accordingly.

I don't think it would cause too many issues anyway, just means a bit more administration if you go by what they are requesting that's all.

I wouldn't remove the alias for the emails, it's better to add an additional SMTP address, if people use the old address it will still get to the correct mailbox. Make sure the additional SMTP address is set to primary for when emails are going out.

Exactly what I thought