First off, I do not work with or develop in AX. I am simply trying to find an answer for a problem we are currently facing and not getting the info needed from those who do work with AX...
As far as I know, employees are never deleted in our system. Their accounts and records are maintained indefinitely. This is starting to cause an issue with new employees not having unique active directory IDs. Our AD users are retained for 120 days from their disabled date, but each time we get a new employee with a common name we have to accommodate for the the AX user history and give them a non-standard username.
I have tried my best to search for workarounds, with no luck. Is there a way to rename/re-associate a terminated user in AX? We need to retain their account/sales history but want to un-link their userID to the old alias. For example, John Smith hasn't worked here in 4 years and we've hired several other John Smith's since then, but have been forced to create their AD user as JSmith2 or Jsmith3 etc. in order to create a unique AX user ID. Is there a way to remove the account association to the users old SID? What is the best way to convert or change Ex-Employees in AX while maintaining their history in AX but freeing up the user ID so we can keep our active user accounts naming convention standardized?