Re: change display name with script?

Joe and other MVPs,

The last thing I want to do is get into an argument with you over usenet. I
respect you, your advice, your books, everything. Not just you, the other
MVP's that frequent these areas as well. Without your help this would not
be the same place.

I want to point out that I am not some sales guy indiscriminately posting
around newsgroups. I am providing very specific advice to help people
resolve their problems. I also do help out, make posts, and provide
solutions that do not involve the products offered by the company I work
for. I am genuinely trying to be helpful.

Some people prefer non-scripted, non command-line, easy to use, fully
supported solutions. And they do come here looking for them. Just because
you suggest a free tool does not mean it is the best tool or the tool the
requester would like to use. Many people will agree that free is not always
the best in a given situation.

Also, I would say there is a fine line between the solutions I post versus
the solutions you post. Many MVPs have links to their websites or blogs or
links to buy books written by them in their signatures or posts. You use
this as a venue to promote yourself as knowledgable and hope to build a
reputation and sell your books, drive people to your site to seek written
faqs or software solutions. While it may be "free", you're also showing off
advertisements for anything from frisbees to software. I'm not complaining,
but I think that there is not a huge difference. And its not the seekers of
help that are complaining, its you guys that somehow feel bothered by it.

I will tell you that many people genuinely appreciate my posts and are
thankful for the solutions. I regularly talk to people that thank me for
posting a solution. They like the ease of use and the fact that it is
supported. Of the solutions offered, free or not, sometimes we are the one
chosen and the best fit for that particular person requesting help. That
makes me feel like I have contributed to the community here.

I hope you guys can see my point. I'm not just spamming or blatently
forcing people to read "ads" as you call it. I put thought into my posts
making sure they are appropriate and useful. And I do not see a huge
difference between me linking to a commercial website and offering to hold
someone's hand through a problem versus your linking to your own website
which has offers things for sale.

I do not want to get into a nasty back and forth argument. This really
isn't the venue and I hope you see my post in a good light. As I said, I
really respect you guys, and I hope you realize the help I have been
offering has been well received by people looking for it.

--
Ken Aldrich
DSRAZOR for Windows
Visual Click Software, Inc.
www.visualclick.com

"Joe Richards [MVP]" <humorexpress@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23f1fVq5KHHA.3560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Wow how about posting something that isn't an Ad?

There has already been a response posted that didn't require scripting nor
paying for a tool.

--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
www.joeware.net


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Ken Aldrich wrote:
Mattias,

With DSRAZOR for Windows you can do this without any scripting. There
are several different ways to use DSRAZOR to make the change on your 2000
uers. The method you choose would be based on whether or not that value
you're appending would be unique to each user or common to many users.

Check it out at www.visualclick.com/?source=edit122906
for a free, personalized, one-on-one demonstration of how we can make
this an easy project for you.



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