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by ccarpenter

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When re-naming a mailbox to a new user (because of position replacement), you can edit everything in the mailbox property pages but the DIRECTORY NAME in the ADVANCED tab. Where can that name be edited so that it matches the new user name. We rename accounts at times so that the new user assumes all of the old user mail & property rights. Should we not do that?

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by rachel_s

Unfortunatly you can't - I looked all over for 'proof' and found this article - you could try a migration tool, but it would just be easier to create a new mailbox and move the mail over. We went throught the same thing here at this organization andrealized no one was doing this and then had problems when we had people coming in with the same ID as the old directory name!

"You can't. The directory name is like the serial number on a dollar bill?it uniquely identifies only one object. For some objects (e.g., an X.400 connector object), you can specify the directory name when you create the object. For other objects, various Exchange DLLs assign the directory name. After you or an Exchange DLL assigns a directory name, you can't change it. However, although you can't change a directory name, you can change your user's mailbox alias and display names because Exchange components use the directory name for internal purposes only."
www.exchangeadmin.com InstantDoc ID: 7698

by ccarpenter

Referred to the big Barry Gerber manual after reading your response. Unfortunately again, he said the same thing. Thanks for your time.

by vagab0nd

Sorry man,

Directory name is read-only and cannot be changed by any means. If you really want to change it - you'll have to recreate mailbox.
To ease this process you can use ExMerge tool from BackOffice Resource Kit.
But beware that if you uselanguages other than English items in mailbox created with this language may become unreadable.

Hope this helps.

by ccarpenter

I had already received a response and as a result referred to the big Barry Gerber manual. Bad news - no can do. Guess I won't be renaming mailboxes any more. Thanks for your time.

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