Or at least it's employees are. Got an email from one of the Exchange support people today regarding an issue that I had blogged about a while back. The issue was that Exchange 2000/2003 handle incoming SMTP emails a bit differently than what I was used to in 5.5. No longer could you set up a global domain alias (IE translate all emails coming to apples.com to oranges.com instead). In 2000/2003 you have to set up aliases in each account.
As one person mentioned there are tools to do this to existing accounts, but the Microsoft Support person gave me this link to a knowledge base article on Microsoft's website that details the strings that can be used to set up recipient policies and how to use them. Oh, this will actually change all existing accounts by adding the proper email addresses as well, but don't worry, it's not destructive for any other addresses you have entered into accounts manually.
So for instance we have 3 separate domain names here. We have two naming conventions that are applied to each of the 3 domains, they are first initial last [email protected] and first middle last [email protected]. So for instance mine are [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and you get the picture.
The strings to do 1st initial last name are %1g%s@<domain Name>. The strings to do first initial of all three names would be %1g%i%1s@<domain name>, but in our case we don't need this, all we need is @<domain name> as this gives you <username>@<domain name> and since we use a user's initals for their username, this renders out as [email protected] for instance.
Anyhow, thanks to the support person at Microsoft who sent me that article link.
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