Re: Any automatic way of Renaming all user accounts to Employee IDs

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eric hela wrote:

I have been asked to rename all user accounts in AD to Employee IDs. Can
anyone share experience or an easy way of automating this process?. I
have over 2000 user accounts to replace in Windows 2000 AD. No other
information change will change. The only change will be to replace the
username to an Employee ID.

If you rename the account, you change the common name (the cn attribute).
However, may logon with their NT name, the "pre-Windows 2000 logon name",
which is the value of the sAMAccountName attribute. cn must be unique in the
container/OU, while sAMAccountName must be unique in the domain. Which are
you changing?

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Richard
Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net


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