I also try to steer customers towards UPNs with a "login with your email address" marketing strategy. For the samAccountName, we'll either do the email alias (if it's usually short), nothing, or a badge number typically.
Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 6:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: New Policy UPN vs samAccountname My advice hasn't changed since 2004. :-) <http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2009/04/07/handling-the-userprincipalname-in-powershell.aspx> <http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/the-user-principle-name-and-you.aspx> Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ________________________________________ From: Juned Shaikh [jsha...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 5:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: New Policy UPN vs samAccountname Trying to draft new policy for user accounts? What is the most effecitve advice? samAccountname - which is generally truncated, cryptic version of realname or nice and clean UPN which is i.e. first.lastn...@gmail.com. Certainly UPN seems scalable, cloud friendly and future proof? Any thoughts or incompatibilites experienced? Thanks in advance, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
