Renaming a Notes user's common or alternate name
When a user is renamed, the user's Internet address often needs to be changed accordingly. You can change a user's Internet address as part of a change to the user's common or alternate name, but you cannot use this rename procedure to change only the Internet address. If you attempt to use this procedure to change only a user's Internet address, you will generate an error.
About this task
Use this procedure to make any of the following changes to a user or to more than one user name:
- Change the common name
- Change or add an alternate name
- Delete the alternate name
- Synchronize the name change between Notes® and Active Directory
When you initiate a user's name change, the user may be prompted to accept or reject the name change. If the user rejects the name change, an administration request is generated that requires you to either accept the user name reverting to the original name or reject the name reverting to the original user name. The user is prompted if the user has selected the Ask your approval before name changes option on the Notes Name Changes dialog box.
You cannot change names associated with Internet certificates.
If the expiration date for the name change is reached and the user has not responded, an administration request is issued asking you to accept a request to retract the name change. You can then either accept the request to retract the name change, or you can reject that request. If you accept the name change retraction, the administration request for rejecting a name change are generated.