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Active Directory name changes
Posted on 2013-06-04
I have a user that had a name change and I have gotten everything changed except the actual network account. For examle, she had been mjones on my domain. Now she is msmith. I thought it should be as easy and going into her mjones properties and just changing her name. NOT A GOOD IDEA. So I created a msmith user account. Now when doing things, there are times that her old and new account seem to have "blended". I dont know how to explain it. For example. She logs in as msmith But when going to My computer, her home drive says mjones
I don't want to make matters worse so what would have been my proper way to keep her profile and settings and get her name changed. Should I have used the copy function in active directory and created it that way?
I don't want to make matters worse so what would have been my proper way to keep her profile and settings and get her name changed. Should I have used the copy function in active directory and created it that way?
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Are you sure you changed it in every place. You also need to update the GAL otherwise her old name will be in there and not the new one.
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Well I thought I did. Sorry, but where do I update GAL? Is this related to an Exchange server? We don't have one.
I am very GREEN so please excuse dumb questions
I am very GREEN so please excuse dumb questions
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverDS/thread/7a88eb2c-a61f-43b8-8060-006fff7850c4
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverDS/thread/7a88eb2c-a61f-43b8-8060-006fff7850c4
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