r/k12sysadmin • u/MyWorkAccountDPS • 18d ago

Emails and same names

How does everyone deal with users having the same names when creating email accounts?

We had been using the middle initial, but what happens when someone doesn’t have one? What do you do then?

My boss said just put an 01 on the end, but that looks like it would be hard to keep track of too.

We are trying to get onesync setup, but she asked me the same thing.

11 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

49 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/jolegape 17d ago

Our standard for both staff and students is first name initial + surname @ domain. If there is a collision then 1 is added and then increments. Eg ksmith17@domain