Can a Windows Active Directory user have aliases?

I've just created a simple AD on our Windows 2008 r2 server. I've added a few employees into that directory.

Now, is it possible to create some aliases for a single account.

eg.

name = [email protected] / contoso\foo.bar

but the user can also log in as

contoso\pewpew

Is this possible?

Solution 1:

Mark's right, to the best of my knowledge. You can login with your SAM username in your domain, and you can login with your UPN. You've already identified those in your question. There's nothing that I've ever read that indicates any support for additional username formats or aliases.

Solution 2:

Mark and mfinni are both correct, the only type alias truly come into play in MS environments is for MS Exchange, Outlook Web Access, and MS Office Communicator, as these technologies allow users to log into their email accounts in OWA/webmail via their email/exchange alias if one is configured.

Solution 3:

While I don't think it's possible to have multiple aliases or user logon names, it certainly is possible to have multiple User Principal Names (suffixes to be precise), so a user could have a UPN of [email protected] and [email protected]. Only one can be used though, not both as far as I know.