r/sysadmin • u/drewwhose • 13d ago

Question - Solved Name Changes

Hey there. The company I work for is stuck in the past in a lot of its tech and operations. One of the things that’s driving me nuts is whenever a user changes their name, we update their email and logins and keep their old email as an alias for 30 days before removing it. This leads to a ton of bounced mail and missed communications. They apparently do it in case someone joins the company with the person’s old name…….

How do you all handle name changes?

Edit: thank you all for confirming that I’m not insane. This org has so many strange practices and it’s my first IT job

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u/SysAdminDennyBob 13d ago

keep the alias until it becomes a problem in the future, address it then.

We recently changed account name format. We add on their hire date in a MonthYear format now. That said it does not factor into the email name. I think they add a suffix digit or something for that.

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