windows server 2008 - Changing user's last name in Active Directory and implications for redirected folders

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I have an Active Directory domain,
running on Windows Server 2008 DCs. I have this user who got married and changed her
last name. I have already changed her last name in Exchange 2007, created a new alias
for her email and assigned it as Primary SMTP address, so i think Exchange is taken care
of.

Now, i haven't changed her user
name yet (the convention is flastname) because i have redirected folders with offline
files at this site. The user is using a Windows 7 based laptop and she uses it both
onsite and remotely, where she VPNs in with a Cisco VPN
Client.

What are the implications and
precautions for changing her username in this
environment?

If i went ahead and changed her
username, would redirected folders log her onto a blank profile? or would it redirect
her to her profile folder using her SID?

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These
questions depend on a more detailed explication of how the redirected folders are done.
Are they via GPO? If so how does the GPO map them? Via %username%? Is it just
documents/music/favorites/downloads, or the whole profile
root?

If that were all true except for the
profile root (which makes it more complicated), then yes it should be fine if you change
the network folder name at same time as username. It won't change anything until their
next login, and you may actually need to tell them to log in, log out, then log in a 2nd
time for offline files to fully engage. This process will be detailed in the Event Logs
of the client PC.

Note that their
local path on the client PC will not change for existing login's but that shouldn't
affect redirected folders or offline files.

If I
were you I'd test this with a test user rename, and then document the correct steps in
order for future occurrences of this.