"Mark Arnold [MVP]" <m***@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:17:13 GMT, "ratman and bobbin"
> <you.would.like.to@know> wrote:
>
>>When created the account name took the form of 'John Doe'. The default
>>SMTP
>>sender is created as john***@mycompany.com. In several instances the users
>>have asked me to change their email 'sent' name to j***@mycompany.com. I
>>created the address, set it as the default but Exchange keeps flipping it
>>back to john***@mycompany.com.
>>
>>Is this expected behaviour? Is there some what I can make the
>>j***@mycompany.com remain as the default?
>>
>>TIA!
>>Geoff
>>
> It is the behaviour you would expect.
> Two ways to fix. There is an article that tells you how to configure
> AD to create the ALIAS in such a way as to have the format you want (I
> need to dig it out as it's not immediately to hand)
> The other way is to change the default recipient policy so that it
> doesn't pick up the ALIAS and use that as the email address.
> See: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=285136 for the
> syntax you need.