How To Rename the Microsoft Exchange Service Account

To make email management and all your Internet related tasks easier, there may be a need to rename your Microsoft exchange service account. This is important, especially if you feel the need to have more features on your email service and to make it more effective in addressing your issues on correspondence with your business partners and clients. While it should not be done too often and compromise your entire presence on the Internet, it does pay. For some, it is considered as part of the upgrading companies normally undergo to serve people better.

If you are an exchange client of Microsoft, you can usually find instructions from their site on how to rename the account. However, the steps they have provided can work only for their certain products such as Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition, Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Standard Edition and Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition. Otherwise, you may employ another software that will provide you the opportunity of managing your email better, such as Exchange Pop3. Nevertheless, below are the steps taken in renaming your account under Microsoft.

1. Once your computer is on and running, go to Windows NT User Manager for Domains. This is where you can find the current name and settings of your domain, which refers to the set of computers connected under a single directory or exchange directory.
2. Opt for the current service account and then use a new name for it. You can achieve this by clicking on the Rename button, which is found on the User menu. Afterwards, you can enter the new account name for the service.
3. When done with the renaming, click the Start button at the bottom of your screen and go to the Control Panel. Once there, you will find Services. Double click its button.
4. Choose each service Microsoft has provided for exchange by doing the following steps.
a. Go to the Startup button and click it. A window will appear and you will find a dialog box.
b. Focus on the Service dialog box and click on This Account button. Get on the ellipsis button. This is found on the left of the field provided for the account name.
c. Choose the service account with the new name, which happens to be your new exchange ID.
d. When asked for the password, type it in the field provided for and in the confirmation box below it.
e. Review everything else to make sure that no exchange errors occur.5. The process of renaming is done, and this service account change is automatically made on the registry.

Obviously, renaming your exchange service account is really quite easy and does not need the help of an IT expert. However, if you do meet some problems in doing it, you an always ask the help of Microsoft’s support service, which you can easily connect to by going to their website.