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Fabrussio
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 Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 4:21 pm Post subject: Change bulk user properties |
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I have around 1500 users in my win2003 AD all who have the entries:
\\server\profile
to connect them to a userprofile
\\server\users\"username"
to connect them to their home directories
I want to change these for every user to a different server name. I remember
in NT4 you could bulk edit users but not in win2003, how can i do this.
Looked at LDFIDE but it's quite a tricky process. |
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Carlo Cacciafesta
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject: RE: Change bulk user properties |
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"Fabrussio" wrote:
| Quote: | I have around 1500 users in my win2003 AD all who have the entries:
\\server\profile
to connect them to a userprofile
\\server\users\"username"
to connect them to their home directories
I want to change these for every user to a different server name. I remember
in NT4 you could bulk edit users but not in win2003, how can i do this.
Looked at LDFIDE but it's quite a tricky process.
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You can use dsquery + dsmod, in this way.
If you want to modify only users in the OU "OU Users":
dsquery user "OU=OU Users,DC=mydomain,DC=local" | dsmod user -profile
\\server\users\$username$
If you want to modify all users:
dsquery user | dsmod user -profile \\server\users\$username$
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Carlo |
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Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 5:12 pm Post subject: Re: Change bulk user properties |
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Fabrussio wrote:
| Quote: | I have around 1500 users in my win2003 AD all who have the entries:
\\server\profile
to connect them to a userprofile
\\server\users\"username"
to connect them to their home directories
I want to change these for every user to a different server name. I
remember in NT4 you could bulk edit users but not in win2003, how can
i do this. Looked at LDFIDE but it's quite a tricky process.
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You can do this in the ADU&C console, hold down the Ctrl key, select the
users, then right click, choose properties, then select the Profile tab, for
the Home Directory,
use \\server\users\%username% This will create the folders with the user's
username and set permissions on the folder.
As for the profile, if you use %username% you will need to copy the profile
into each folder it creates so you should be sure to use the actual
directory that contains the profile.
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Fabrussio
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 7:59 pm Post subject: RE: Change bulk user properties |
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Thanks, to get an entry for their actual usernames in the path do i use
$username$, rather than %username% which is the syntax I have used before in
scripting?
also if I have OU's containing many other OU's do i just add another entry?
eg:
OU = 'people, containing OU 'staff', then OU 'office staff' in my domain
KRP.LOCAL what would the script be to modify their home directories?
"Carlo Cacciafesta" wrote:
| Quote: | "Fabrussio" wrote:
I have around 1500 users in my win2003 AD all who have the entries:
\\server\profile
to connect them to a userprofile
\\server\users\"username"
to connect them to their home directories
I want to change these for every user to a different server name. I remember
in NT4 you could bulk edit users but not in win2003, how can i do this.
Looked at LDFIDE but it's quite a tricky process.
You can use dsquery + dsmod, in this way.
If you want to modify only users in the OU "OU Users":
dsquery user "OU=OU Users,DC=mydomain,DC=local" | dsmod user -profile
\\server\users\$username$
If you want to modify all users:
dsquery user | dsmod user -profile \\server\users\$username$
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Carlo |
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Carlo Cacciafesta
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 11:40 am Post subject: RE: Change bulk user properties |
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"Fabrussio" wrote:
| Quote: | Thanks, to get an entry for their actual usernames in the path do i use
$username$, rather than %username% which is the syntax I have used before in
scripting?
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Yes, dsmod requires you to use "$" wildcard instead of "%". It's a syntax
requirement.
| Quote: | also if I have OU's containing many other OU's do i just add another entry?
eg:
OU = 'people, containing OU 'staff', then OU 'office staff' in my domain
KRP.LOCAL what would the script be to modify their home directories?
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"OU=office staff,OU=staff,OU=people,DC=KRP,DC=local"
Regards,
Carlo |
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Paul Williams [MVP]
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 11:45 am Post subject: Re: Change bulk user properties |
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If you use %username% the command shell will insert your username (or the
username of the user running the command).
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Paul Williams
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - Directory Services
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