Change User Name But Not Email SBS 2003

Question

Greetings,
I need some help. I have a user that got married and wants to change her last name because she sends email from Outlook and it shows her old last name. I would like to change her user name but keep her email address the same.
On SBS 2003 from Server Management -> Users, if you rightClick a user and select "Rename" from the popup menu, you can change the first and last name and leave the email as is. The user name will change and the email address stays the same in
the user list when the edit window closes.
I would like to do this if there are no repercussions such as email folders disappearing or unaccesable or any other changes to anything other than the user name.
What will happen if i change the user name as I descirbed above. Will it mess up any of the users access. permissions, etc?
Thanks very much for your help!
Lewis

Answer 1

Hi Lewis:
If I understand what you mean, you would like this user to receive mails addressed to "old-name" and send mails with the reply address as "new-name".
To do this, open Active Directory Users and Computers, find the user, right click - properties, email addresses.
Add the new email address and set it as default.  Uncheck the box to update based on recipient policy.
You can also change the users name in the SBS console, but if you just change the email address there emails addressed to old-name will not be received.  So in the console, just change the users name for logon and user name to new-name, but not the
email address.  Just add one in ADUC.
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