What's the right way to implement a user name change?

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Stephen M

I have a user who was recently married and she has a new name.

It would be nice if I did not have to create a "new" profile for her. I
tried this with a test user and it was easy enough for me to change the
name, display name and account. However the name displayed in ADUC does not
change. My users also have their My documents redirected to the file server.
This is in a folder with the same name as their profile. Will she become
disconnected form her My Documents?

This has got to happen all the time at other shops. I their a recommended
method for handling profile/name changes?

FWIW there is an exchange email address in play here as well.

Thanks,

Steve
 
Stephen M said:
I have a user who was recently married and she has a new name.

It would be nice if I did not have to create a "new" profile for her. I
tried this with a test user and it was easy enough for me to change the
name, display name and account. However the name displayed in ADUC does not
change.
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Then you have missed something (display name or some such.)
You can change the name.
My users also have their My documents redirected to the file server.
Click to expand...
This is in a folder with the same name as their profile. Will she become
disconnected form her My Documents?
Click to expand...

No, but the folder will have the old name (not usually seen)
unless you dig for it.
This has got to happen all the time at other shops. I their a recommended
method for handling profile/name changes?

FWIW there is an exchange email address in play here as well.
Click to expand...

Check with the Exchange folks; I haven't done this part.
 
Right-click on the user object and choose rename.

The 'display name' that you refer to is probably the full name. Change
this, as well as the surname (you've probably already changed the surname in
the user properties).

This won't affect exchange. If the e-mail address needs changing, go to the
e-mail addresses tab and add another SMTP address. Don't remove the old
one. Just set the new one to primary. If you're using X400 you may need to
change that, or again add another.

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I have a user who was recently married and she has a new name.

It would be nice if I did not have to create a "new" profile for her. I
tried this with a test user and it was easy enough for me to change the
name, display name and account. However the name displayed in ADUC does not
change. My users also have their My documents redirected to the file server.
This is in a folder with the same name as their profile. Will she become
disconnected form her My Documents?

This has got to happen all the time at other shops. I their a recommended
method for handling profile/name changes?

FWIW there is an exchange email address in play here as well.

Thanks,

Steve
 
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