E-mailaddress policies always funny to work with them, sometimes you will have to puzzle a bit. Since Exchange 2007 you will have the possibility to use a wizard to create an e-mailaddress policy. Within the wizard a few templates are created which you can use. But sometimes you might want to create your own template. In that case you can use the following parameters:
- %s : surename
- %g : givenname
- %i : initials
- %d : display name
- %m : Exchange 2003 alias
- %rxy : replaces the character after the r with the last character, in this example x is replaced by y.
As you can see you can use several parameters but what if you would like to use only the first 2 characters of the givenname. This can be simply done by adding the number 2 before the g, so %2g. Let’s give some examples, our user has the following name Piet van der Kolk.
- %d : pietvanderkolk@domain.com
- %g.%s : piet.vanderkolk@domain.com
- %1g.%s : p.vanderkolk@domain.com
- %g.%r .%s : p.van.der.kolk@domain.com
If you would like to have more examples then have a look at the site below. The site is made for Exchange 2003 but the parameters can still be used in Exchange 2010:
Technet – How to modify an SMTP E-Mail Address by Using Recipient Policies open
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