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Thank you, all of you, for you quick responses! Very helpful. I will pass on and implement within the environment. &nbsp;
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Thank you, all of you, for you quick responses! Very helpful. I will pass on and implement within the environment.  

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Hello.<br />
I was posed the following question and cannot find a definitive answer. &nbsp;Hopefully someone in the community can help answer.<br />
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When creating an email account - or amending a current email account - within an Exchange 2007 environment, can you use the dollar sign symbol <b>$</b> as the FIRST character of that address?<br />
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Thank you.
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Hello.
I was posed the following question and cannot find a definitive answer.  Hopefully someone in the community can help answer.

When creating an email account - or amending a current email account - within an Exchange 2007 environment, can you use the dollar sign symbol $ as the FIRST character of that address?

Thank you.

What characters are allowed in creating email accounts?

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