Edit an OU in Active Directory to allow different email domains
Hi all,
This relates to my other open question, but wanted to ask it separately, as it affects other issues as well.
We have a one-domain forest, with multiple email domains available. I have different OU's set up for each email domain (such as abc.com and xyz.xom). The OU ABC allows me to create new users with a user login name of "joe@abc.com" as it shold. However, the OU XYZ also only allows me to create new users with login names of "bob@abc.com" rather than "bob@xyz.com".
Where do i need to go to edit the OU so that the OU XYZ has the option for xyz.com?
I don't know what is your "other question" but you are confusion email address on UPN, what you see while creating the user is called UPN (User Principle Name) and has nothing to do with email addresses.
If you want to add a UPN so you can create UPNs @xyz.com go to active directory domains and trusts right click properties on "Active directory domains and trusts" (NOT on the domain name) and you can add UPNs here, however these will be available for the whole forest and not just for one OU
Forgive me if i have not fully understood, but i think that what you want to do is to add a UPN suffix to the forest. You can do this by following this technet article:
Excellent, thankyou, both of these suggestions have worked, across the entire domain.
Out of interest though, is there a way to add UPN suffixes at OU level rather than the whole forest? We have another OU which only has one suffix (efg.com) available, regardless of what else is available in the forest (this was set up by the previous admin) and i'd quite like to know how it was done!
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Sorry, perhaps i should have provided a little more clarity. I have never had the need to do this, but i believe the principle is that you will add it at forest level, but you can set the attribute in ADSIedit to pick a default one for those in a specific OU.
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If you want to add a UPN so you can create UPNs @xyz.com go to active directory domains and trusts right click properties on "Active directory domains and trusts" (NOT on the domain name) and you can add UPNs here, however these will be available for the whole forest and not just for one OU