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
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