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Edit properties for multiple AD users?

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by tcekada

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In NT 4.0 "user manager for domains" you could control-click a bunch of users and change the path of the home directory for all of them in one shot. In the "Active Directory Users and Computers" program in Windows 2000 you can't do this. Does any know of a way to do this Active Directory?? For example, I am moving my user's home directories to a different server. I would like to change the server name in the home directory path for all users in one shot rather than go into each one and change the server name in the UNC path for the home directory. Can you help??

Thanks,

Tony Cekada
Systems Engineering
120 Exchange Street
Portland, ME 04101
207-772-3199

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by banyanman

There is an easy way. You need to use a Windows 2000 resource kit utility named cusrmgr.exe. What you do is export the Pre-Windows 2000 Logon from Active Directory Users and Computers to a csv file. Open the file with excel and write a batch fileto make your changes. You add all of your commands and switches into different columns of the spreadsheet, then save the csv file, open it with notepad, remove all the commas, then rename it with a .bat extension. There is a little prep work involved on the first run, but once you get that down your AD administration life gets 1000 times easier. I've changed the Home Directories, passwords, and enabled about 2000 accounts in a matter of minutes. You can email me at banyanman@hotmail.com with the subject line "AD Account Migration" and I can send you some samples and more detailed instructions.

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