Re: User Name Change Issue
From: Colin Nash [MVP] (cnash-REMOVETHIS-_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/15/04
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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:12:01 -0500
This shouldn't have anything to do with permissions-- renaming a user is
really a cosmetic thing: the SID is the same and that's what truly
identifies the account (and is what gets used in access control entries)
"Clayton" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:107f601c3f3e4$c114ba40$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> It seems that KB Article 323000 referring on how to change
> a users login name has some issues....
> The process explained in this article does do what it
> claims however the end result is not acceptable.
> Once you go nto this process then log the new user name
> into Active Directory the 1st thing it complains about is
> that the "users Desktop folder has been moved or is not
> accessible".
> The 2nd issue seems to be that if the user clicks the
> Start button it does nothing.
> This is the case in both the users local PC and the users
> login into Terminal Services.
> The reason for the user name change is in the past our
> company used Unix, there is an 8 character limitation for
> login names in Unix (at that time) no then as we move out
> of the Unix subsystem I want to be rid of the Truncated
> login names.
> I have tried to reset permissions on the users folder to
> that of the new user name and even deleted the truncated
> user from the security tab prior to the addition even
> forcing replication in the domain prior as well.
> This still causes issues, and going back to the users
> security tab on the folder I am finding that the old
> truncated name still is applied?
> 3 years ago we "migrated" from Win NT Domain to Active
> Directory.In the NT life they used Roaming Profiles which
> I have found since the migration has been a big pain in
> the But#.
> Before doing the name change I tested this process on a
> newly created user in AD, this user has "no problems"
> Could this be a SID issue?
> I have not tried to delete the user from AD yet so I want
> to bounce this off of all of you.
> Hope you can help.
> BTW, I have searched until my fingers are blue the MS
> knowledge base, turning up nothing with my search queries.
> Thanks
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