https://janikvonrotz.ch/tags/archive/ Recent content in Archive on Janik von Rotz Hugo en-us Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:04:19 +0000 https://janikvonrotz.ch/2013/10/14/archive-activedirectory-users-and-their-mailbox/ Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:04:19 +0000 https://janikvonrotz.ch/2013/10/14/archive-activedirectory-users-and-their-mailbox/ <p>One of my company&rsquo;s requirements is the retention time of 10 years for user accounts and their mailbox data, I have to admit, this might not be common or even recommended. However I have to deal with it.</p> <p>One problem to face is the availabilty of user account names, by the number of about 500 employees there&rsquo;s a hight change that two or even more people are having the same name.</p> <p>To clean up the available names in the system I&rsquo;ve written a script that renames a users identity and the mailboxes address. So let&rsquo;s see what this script does:</p>