Jeff - I ended up cross posting this, and someone came up with this solution - It doesn't realy help my issue by it may be someothing worth looking at for yourself - TomSyr Tom you got me to thinking about this. I did some looking around and the only thing I found was from Bamboo. But it seems there should be a another way to do this. http://store.bamboosolutions.com/p-4-user-account-setup

Not familiar with those tools, but I'll research. Thanks. "Ace Fekay [MVP]" wrote: In news:C1946FCE-7631-451F-8F28-5AC44125F742@microsoft.com, Animatrix1 <Animatrix1@discussions.microsoft.com> typed: Jorge: Thanks for the post. As I just mentioned in my reply to Richard, I have checked every tab and dialog box in the AD msc, but there is nothing displaying the

Jorge: Thanks for the post. As I just mentioned in my reply to Richard, I have checked every tab and dialog box in the AD msc, but there is nothing displaying the old users name. As for replication - These accounts were renamed months ago, so I'm pretty sure that replication is not the issue. "Jorge Silva" wrote: Hi - Check if the replication of changes already ocurred to

Joe: I can understand why you might feel that way, but the bottom line is: why provide the option if it doesn't work? There are significant - let me reiterate - SIGNIFICANT advantages to renaming accounts rather that rebuilding them. Maybe in your environment it's easier to create a new account, but im my environment it is not. "Joe D" wrote: it is very poor thinking to "reuse"

There are several "name" attributes of user objects. When you rename the user account, you modify the value of the "cn" (Common Name) attribute. This is the field labeled "name" in ADUC. In addition, there is also the "pre-Windows 2000 logon name", which is on the "Account" tab in ADUC and is the value of the sAMAccountName attribute. This name is also called the NT name of the user and is