This is my first attempt at answering a question here on the list, but I believe that I have an accurate answer to the question in this thread. If I am incorrect, I apologize for any confusion that I may have caused.
200 or so members would be a lot to perform updates on individually but I would assume that those users are within different OU's. Since they are in OU's you would only have to make an update for each OU that you have your 200 or so members in. Why not select all the users in the OU and update their properties all at once. The Profile tab should be available to where you can update the path as needed. Now you can then update your \\goofy\home\ to \\mickey\home\ as you like. I had to do the same thing when I took over a domain that uses roaming profiles. I moved around a lot of files and folders for performance and best practice reasons which forced me to update everyone's roaming profile path using the method above. The only exception was that I added their username to the path such as \\mickey\home\%username% If you can find a programming solution then I say go for it! I myself need to learn how to automate stuff when managing Active Directory. I have found that not to be so easy. But if you need a quick solution, then the above might work for you. Edwin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 5:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] home directory modifications Do so - at your peril, Sir! and, while you are at it, don't tell Joe :) Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mulnick, Al Sent: Wed 7/21/2004 2:31 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] home directory modifications If option two doesn't do it, this might be a good starting point (Deji's option 2) http://tinyurl.com/5jne3 The code here assumes you already have the userdn. That's easy enough to get if they're all in the same ou. If not, modify Deji's script -- it'll be faster. Once you bind to the user object, read the homedrive attribute, parse it (split is a pretty good function for this) and then read it back into the variable you want and update the user object with the vars you want. Cool scripts Deji!! I'm going to have to start crawling that site a bit more :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 5:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] home directory modifications Depending on how brave you are, one of these MAY help you. http://www.akomolafe.com/DesktopModules/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=35 http://www.akomolafe.com/DesktopModules/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=26 Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of James Payne Sent: Wed 7/21/2004 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] home directory modifications I have about 200 users setup to connect h: to \\goofy\home\username. I am moving the data on \\goofy\home\ to \\mickey\home\. Is there a script laying around somewhere that would allow me to change this path in everyone's profile at once? It should would beat doing this manually for every user. Thanks again for any help you guys can provide. James List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
