Holy Matrimony, Batman!

Congratulations Kyle & Britt! Yet another one of our invaluable Ministry Support Staff (Britt) got married and you know what that means? I've got to change her name on the Windows domain and Exchange. For a well-established employee, changing the name is actually easier than creating a new account, but there are a number of places where the name must be changed within Active Directory. For those who are new at this, here's a quick 'n' dirty guide that you can bookmark.

1. Launch Active Directory Users & Computers
2. Navigate to the Users container
3. Right-click on the account and choose and 'Rename'
4. Change the last name and a 'Rename user' dialog box will be presented
5. Change Full Name, Last Name, Display Name, User Login Name and the Pre-windows 2000 User Login Name - Click OK.
6. Right-click new name, choose 'properties'
7. 'General' tab, change the email address
8. 'Exchange General' tab, change the Alias
9. 'Email Addresses' tab, change:
• cc:mail address
• Ms Mail address
• x.400 address
• SMTP address will have been updated already
10. 'Email Addresses' tab - add a pre-marital SMTP address to catch emails.

NOTE: Deep within the NT subsystem, the original account alias still exists and will crop up from time to time, especially when Outlook automatically suggests an email address. You cannot change this, but it does NOT affect the full functionality or the external appearance of the new, renamed user.

Bon appetite!