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Subject:

Re: Anyone use ADMODIFY.NET?

From:

Troy Murray <[log in to unmask]>

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Troy Murray <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:42:19 -0400

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Chris,

I have yet to use it, but ADmit from Thursby Software will allow Macs
to use DFS.
http://www.thursby.com/products/admitmac.html

-t


On Aug 2, 2007, at 8:28 PM, Harper, Chris wrote:

> Dennis --
>
> DFS is nice because your storage appears unified when in fact it is
> quite the opposite once you dig into the destination of the DFS
> shares.
> I investigated using that here at UR but my roadblock came with Mac's.
>
> What solution (if any) did you come up with for this? Or are your Mac
> users (again, if any) just accustomed to knowing where their data is
> located, rather than in respect to the DFS root?
>
> Appreciate your input.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris Harper
> INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST
> University Relations / Michigan State University
> 401 Olds Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824-1047
> Email: [log in to unmask] / Direct: 517.355.9980
> Web: http://ur.msu.edu / Cell: 517.290.5496
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Dennis Kelly
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 5:50 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Anyone use ADMODIFY.NET?
>
> No we haven't, and there shouldn't be much of a performance hit or
> overhead because DFS is only a pointer to the actual share, so the DFS
> server doesn't handle/proxy the data traffic. Once the client is told
> the share resides on serverX, it goes straight to serverX for data.
> It probably helps using domain DFS root, so requests are load
> balanced, but that too should be negligable... I do domain DFS root to
> have redundancy, because if a DC goes offline, I shouldn't lose any DC
> services.
>
> dpk
>
>
>
> On 8/2/07, Troy Murray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Dennis,
>>
>> In the past I've tried to use DFS for users shares and found that the
>> performance was very poor compared to just a straight share UNC.
>> Have
>> you seen any performance degradation from using DFS?
>>
>> -t
>>
>>
>> On 8/2/07, Dennis Kelly <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> If you're only concerned about home directories, you can use the
>>> native Administrative Tool "Active Directory Users and Computers".
>>> Select all the users you want to modify and
>>> right-click "Properties". You can go to the profile tab and click
>>> "Home Directory" to
>>> modify a property for multiple objects. It does allow the use of
> %username%
>>>
>>> Also, to avoid this problem in the future, you may want to
> investigate
>>> the use of DFS... it's a very flexible way to mange, load-balance,
>>> etc. your network shares. I use domain DFS root so that I can
>>> replicate the published links across both domain controllers for
>>> additional reliability. You can then use notation like this for
>>> mapping user directories:
>>>
>>> \\domain.com\dfs\User\%username%
>>>
>>> where \\domain.com\dfs is my dfs root. The link "User" points to a
>>> share \\some-server\User. If some-server is replaced with
>>> some-other-server, I only need to update the DFS link on one of the
>>> domain controllers to point to \\some-other-server\User.
>>>
>>> Boom it's replicated, and boom no headache of remappings. I use
> this
>>> for any/all network shares here in Jackson Hole. I can send you my
>>> documentation on it if interested.
>>>
>>> dpk
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/2/07, Ehren Benson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> Nag-
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if any of you windows folks ever used the tool
> admodify.net
>>>> to do mass AD changes. I am trying to use it with a LDAP filter
> to find all
>>>> users who currently have a home directory and then select all of
> those users
>>>> and change the location of their home directory (we got a new box
> for home
>>>> directories). However it seems when I use the %USERNAME% it does
> not
>>>> enumerate the variable...it just sets each users profile path to
>>>> \\server\users\username (instead of replacing %username% with
> their actual
>>>> username).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Wondering if anyone else has used it and possibly ran into this
> issue, or
>>>> has had good luck with some other scripts/tools.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> NOTE: I decided to use admodify with the LDAP filter because I
> don't want
>>>> to change the path for EVERY user, because some do not have home
>>>> directories, and those who do not have them I would like to remain
> that way.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> /Ehren
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Troy D Murray
>> Blog: http://troymurray.blogspot.com/
>> AIM: troymurray72
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>>


--
Troy Murray
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