Is it possible to change what Exchange 2010 uses for the default alias if you're adding multiple users through the Exchange Management Console. If there isn't a way to do it in the console is there a powershell command that can do it? Essentially when I go to create a mailbox for multiple users at the same time the ALIAS section is greyed out. When the mailboxes are created it uses the format of FirstLast@domain.com and I need it to be the same as their userid. Thanks!

I recommend that you do such things with PowerShell. You could create a CSV file with Excel and craft a pretty easy loop using Import-CSV to create a set of mailboxes based on the parameters you specify.-- Ed Crowley MVP"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems.". "Joshua Groom" wrote in message news:90be3644-84b8-49d6-9a60-4017a9f761fd...Is it possible to change what Exchange 2010 uses for the default alias if you're adding multiple users through the Exchange Management Console. If there isn't a way to do it in the console is there a powershell command that can do it? Essentially when I go to create a mailbox for multiple users at the same time the ALIAS section is greyed out. When the mailboxes are created it uses the format of FirstLast@domain.com and I need it to be the same as their userid. Thanks! Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

To do this with the GUI, you can go to the "organization Configuration>hub transport" Choose the "E-mail Address Policies" tab and Add a new policy. Call it whatever you want I used "the domain name" Policy and included it with all recipient types. Click next and then next again In the E-mail Addresses push the add button Use the radio button to make the name whatever you want it to be AKA first name initial and last name is the third one down. If you want to change the FQDN you do that at the bottom and make it a .com, .org, or .net (my domains a usually .local, but I host real email) Then you get to the part where you apply it and it changes all the existing users, either at a time or immediately, and Viola everyone will have the correct email address. Subsequent additions will also get the proper default email address. Hope this helps, P.S. I love commands and the commadlets option as well, but I have Cisco, Unix, Novell, Nortel, DOS, HP, and too many other things rattling around in my head to attempt to master and new command line so the GUI is easier...

Using the FLast name option of the Address Policy is not the solution here. The requirement is for the new mailbox to get an address that is the same as the user's logon name and not necessarily FLast name. This is particularly helpful in situations were you have users with the same name. In AD the logon name has already taken care of this during user creation. The requirement is that this used in Exchange during mailbox creation, so that the mailboxes don't end up as JSmith, JSmith(1) and so on... Does anyone have a good idea how to tackle this? Thank you.

A PowerShell script for provisioning mailboxes is your answer.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

In the Exchange2007 EMC, the alias was generated by the userprincipalname. We have a process the creates new employee accounts but a sysadmin must set the password, enable the account, create the mailbox and add the user to any requested groups. Until 2010 they could set the password and enable the accounts of multiple users and then create the mailboxes through the EMC and add multiple accounts, they would then select the database to create the mailboxes and the alias would be generated based on the userprinciplename. Now with 2010, the alias is FirstnameLastname. Does anyone know why this was changed and is there a way to change it back?System Administrator

I am facing the same problem. However the strange thing is, when creating a single account, it works perfectly. When doing the process for more than 1 mailbox at a time, the FirstnameLastname happens! Simon RobertsMany thanks, Simon Roberts