Renaming a User in Active Directory

[sandy]

HI,
We use w2k server and w2k on all of our desktops. When an
employee leaves and a new one is hired we found the
easiest thing to do is rename the old user to the new user
in active directory changing all instances of the old name
to the new name and then when the new employee logs on to
the computer he gets the same desktop
options/shortcuts/programs etc that the old employee used.
Everything works quite well even the new email address -
the only glitch is if you start typing the new employee
email address in the to box in outlook it pops up: new
employee <old employee>, any ideas why? Once you pick it
the new employee name is inserted. And outlook tasks that
the old employee was tracking will be forwarded to the new
employee - can this be stopped? Maybe you have a better
solution on getting the new employee to use the old
employee's setup? Any help is really appreciated.
Thanks,
Sandy

 

[Guest]

This is bad practice from security standpoint. Please do not follow this approach and delete/disable old user accounts and create new ones.

Thanks

Umit AKKUS

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[J Houston]

This is bad practice from security standpoint. Please do not follow this

approach and delete/disable old user accounts and create new ones.
I agree. You should delete the old employee and create a new account for the
new employee.

If you want the same same desktop options/shortcuts/programs etc, then what
to
do is set-up a default profile on each of your Windows 2000 PC's - once you
do
this you'll realise how simple the whole thing is.

As for your server, look at group policies for applying restrictions and
logon scripts
to your employee users. Depending on how many users you have, you might also
want to look at roaming/mandatory profiles as well.



James H

 

[sandy]

Thanks to both of you for your info. I tried the default
profile, found it really simple and will definitely use
this method from now on. Can you tell me why from a
security standpoint my old way was not a good practice?
Again, thanks for the quick response. Have a great day.

-----Original Message-----

do not follow this
approach and delete/disable old user accounts and create new ones.

I agree. You should delete the old employee and create a new account for the
new employee.

If you want the same same desktop

options/shortcuts/programs etc, then what

 

[Guest]

'cause Ure old user is still in Ure AD, u´ve just ceated an "alias" for the old user.
the old users E-mail adress will probably still work but the mail will go to nthe newlie employeed.......