Remove Special charatcers for email address

Question

We have run into an issue where the special characters in a person's name are causing havoc with email addresses. We need to remove all special characters and only leave letters when creating the email address. Right now we are creating email with the Firstname Lastname parameters. We assume we want to use the FullName and remove the characters before creation. Please advise.

Answer 1

Hello,

Have a look at the following tutorial: http://www.adaxes.com/tutorials_Simplif ... Script.htm. On step 5 check Example 6: Replace characters in the username.

Comments

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Hello,

Check our post one more time. The Business Rule must trigger Before Updating or Creating a User, not After.

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ok, i was thinking i needed to have the email alias created first before it could remove characters. I deleted the previous business rule and created it for before creating a user.

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Hello,

As we can see there is a Business Rule that creates a mailbox for the user after the script is executed. You need to create another Business Rule that will trigger Before Creating an Exchange mailbox for a User and execute the script below.

$map = @{ "å"="a"; "ö"="o"; "ä"="a";"ü"="u"; "ñ"="n"; "é"="e"; "-"=""; "'"="" }
$alias = $Context.Action.MailAlias
foreach ($key in $map.Keys)
{
    $alias = $alias.Replace($key, $map[$key])
}
$Context.Action.MailAlias = $alias

The rule should look as follows:

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Thank you the missing piece was the Before Creating an Exchange Mailbox. Worked flawlessly.