A.D. Users > Subusers

[Guest]

My second post tonite - and again, as in my first post, I have searched everywhere for information about this issue. I am an ISP, and I create dialup accounts for users. Some of the users wish to have second or third email boxes added to their accounts. This requires an additional acct be set up for them. However, at audit time it is a huge mess because -NO ONE can figure out how to create the secondary email accounts and somehow attach them to the person's "main" account. Important to note, I work with two MIT educated guys, so if they can't figure it out...well, you know where I'm going with that. Is Microsoft so daft that they forgot to add this basic functionality? Or is it buried so deep no one can find it??

I've posted this same question on several boards and no one seems to respond to it, so it's either that I am a total dufus and no one will aknowledge it, or it's an AD problem that is unresolvable.

Does ANYone have ANY idea how to add "subaccts" to a "main" account in Active Directory? :-]

 

[Andy Cadley]

I'm not sure you can easily do what you want. Active Directory is based on
the principle of 1 user = 1 account. This is pretty much fundamental to the
way AD works and so getting around it is not going to be easy. You can add
extra email addresses to that account but, if I'm reading you correctly,
that won't do what you want.

You could use the Manager field to create a link between accounts and then
use a custom script to resolve this at audit time but that's a bit of a
hack. Alternatively you could use distribution groups to create collections
of user accounts which might suit your need.

More details on what email server you're using and how it integrates with AD
would help.

AndyC

My second post tonite - and again, as in my first post, I have searched

everywhere for information about this issue. I am an ISP, and I create
dialup accounts for users. Some of the users wish to have second or third
email boxes added to their accounts. This requires an additional acct be set
up for them. However, at audit time it is a huge mess because -NO ONE can
figure out how to create the secondary email accounts and somehow attach
them to the person's "main" account. Important to note, I work with two MIT
educated guys, so if they can't figure it out...well, you know where I'm
going with that. Is Microsoft so daft that they forgot to add this basic
functionality? Or is it buried so deep no one can find it???

I've posted this same question on several boards and no one seems to

respond to it, so it's either that I am a total dufus and no one will
aknowledge it, or it's an AD problem that is unresolvable.

Does ANYone have ANY idea how to add "subaccts" to a "main" account in

Active Directory? :-]