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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 Yahoo!: [log in to unmask] MSN: [log in to unmask] Google Talk: [log in to unmask]