Hello All, Looking for assistance with creation of an email address policy, our company has been using multiple domain names and multiple address formats and as of Janurary is looking to rebrand it's self as one company and use one format going forward. This is a great change but the current situation is a disaster. My original goal was to use the alias field and standard email address policies but this idea falls apart when you start dealing with general purpose addresses. For example info@domain1.com info@domain2.com Our company has these mailboxes separate and monitored by different groups of people. per exchange the alias has to be unique so we end up with alias like the following info_domain1.com info_domain2.com obviously is we apply an EAP based on alias we end up with something like info_domain1.com@newdomain.com Also we have many european names in our organization like John van der Smith In our environment we have it setup us Firstname: John Lastname: van der Smith with a goal of the new email address being john.vander.smith@newdomain.com Any suggestions on how to resolve this without destroying how things look in the global address list would be great, thanks in advance

First ask your magement what email polict do they want i.e. first name last name , first name initial and last name etc. Once you are decided which email address format you gonna the setup the policy accodingly. according to you you have differrent tye of emails. info_domain1.com@newdomain.com john.a.b.c@newdoamin.com abc.xyz.123@newdomain.com Well you can keep the eixsting aliases as it and apply the default new email address on top of that and set as default. Let say if your management decides first initial and las name then it could be Jsmith@newdomain.com and at the same time if someone send him email at john.vander.smith@newdomain.com he will be receiving the email on his existing email alises and when replying his new email aliases will be seen by the receiving end. hope it does help.

Look at below thread for more information: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/exchangesvradmin/thread/827cda11-f87f-484b-9c03-61aec671c0e7 Anil