Company Name Change 1

[beerhunter2]

One of the companies I work for will be completing a merger very soon. Along with the merger, comes a name change. I need to create a @newcompany.com email address for everyone in the organization, while maintaining the @oldcompany.com email address. The @newcompany.com email address needs to be the primary address.

What is the correct way of doing this, without going into each mailbox to add a new email address and setting the primary?

If you require additional background information, please let me know.

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[SkreeM]

The easiest way to do this for the entire organisation is to go to Exch Server Admin, Recipient policies, there you can add the @newcompany.com and set it as default plus force update of all clients to new policiy. also useful if you want to do things like firstname@domain or first.last etc there are variables you can use

%g = given name(first name)
%s = surname

etc.

Skr

 

[beerhunter2]

Thanks SkreeM for the info.
After a bunch of searching the internet yesterday, I stumbled across an article that mentioned exactly what you are saying.
It puts me as great ease though having you confirm it.


Now, to take things one step further...
During this company merger and name change, I am also migrating from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003.
I migrated the user accounts (mailboxes) over yesterday, and all went well.
I have not yet migrated or moved the Public information store. From what I understand, this is an entirely different process than migrating user mailboxes, and that there is a special tool and process involved.

Can anyone advise me of the proper process, or point me to an article that explains this process?

Should the Public Store be migrated before I implement the organization name change?

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[beerhunter2]

Oops...I think I've found the article that answers my own question.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...f06-cf90-43fe-b836-f21b2fa88d4d.mspx?mfr=true

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