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November 6, 2007 at 10:30 AM
ambjmb

Creating a new user in Active Directory with a template?

by ambjmb . Updated 18 years, 9 months ago

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
Microsoft Exchange 2003
All patched to the hilt
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I would like to automatically populate the “User Logon Name” and email address each time I create a new user.

It would be based on the users first and last name.

So if I create a new user named Joe Shmoe the end result would be a new user with the logon name:

user logon name: jshmoe
email address: jshmoe@domain.com
users home directory: \\fileserver\home\jshmoe

I know this can be done as I have seen it in production, however I can not remember the steps.

Will I need to create a template say, templateuser with %firstinitiallastname% or something similar?

What about for the email address? Is that built into the recipient policy? I believe Microsoft recommends creating a new recipient policy and never to delete the default.

This install is from scratch so any other helpful hints are greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time in advance!

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