Auto Generation Exchange Alias

Hello,

You should create E-mail Alias Generation Policy.

The email alias generation lacks the logic to add multiple generation rules like the user logon name generation policy.

For instance, I would like to have the alias be first.lastname, then on conflict use first.initial.lastname.

You cannot specify this in the email alias generation.

You are correct, you cant use multiple alias generation rules within Email alias generation policy in ARS.
I guess, ARS scripting can help here. Please take a look at this sample - wiki.activeroles.inside.quest.com/.../Custom_script-based_User_Logon_Name_Generation_policy You could use the sample as a starting point for your solution. For this you should change the sample to manage mailnickName instead of sAMAccountName

Sample script's new location:
www.quest.com/.../custom-script-based-user-logon-name-generation-policy

here is the powershell shell script....
we are taking first character of first name followed by last name.. if this is available then first 2 character of first name followed by last name and so on..

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function onPostModify($Request)
{
$givenname = $Dirobj.get("givenname").ToLower()
$sn = $Dirobj.get("sn").ToLower().split()[-1]
$Alias1 = $givenname.substring(0,1) + $sn.Replace(' ','')

$exit = 0

do
{
try
{
$user = get-recipient "$Alias1@amal.ae" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue


if ($user -eq $null) {$exit = 1}

else

{ $Alias1 = $givenname.substring(0,2) + $sn }

$user = get-recipient "$Alias1@amal.ae" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

if ($user -eq $null) {$exit = 1}
else
{ $Alias1 = $givenname.substring(0,3) + $sn }

$user = get-recipient "$Alias1@amal.ae" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if ($user -eq $null) {$exit = 1}
else
{ $Alias1 = $givenname.Substring(0,4) + $sn }

$user = get-recipient "$Alias1@amal.ae" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if ($user -eq $null) {$exit = 1}
else
{ $Alias1 = $givenname.Substring(0,5) + $sn }

$user = get-recipient "$Alias1@amal.ae" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if ($user -eq $null) {$exit = 1}
else
{ $Alias1 = $givenname.Substring(0,6) + $sn }


}

catch
{

$exit = 1
}
}

while($exit -eq 0)

$Alias1