Re: Replacing an old employees rights with a new employee username...
From: Dave Nickason [SBS MVP] (gwdibble_at_NOSPAM.frontiernet.net)
Date: 07/08/04
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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:58:37 -0400
I used to rename the accounts when people changed jobs, but I quit because
of some resulting aggravation. However, Brad's situation with the carefully
set permissions seems like a great candidate for renaming.
The things you need to look out for when you rename the "Sue" account to
"Jane" would be a lot of residual stuff in the user profile. For example,
Sue probably had many programs registered to her and using her user
information. The properties of Word docs may list Sue as the author instead
of Jane. We use scanning software that automatically adds file properties
based on a username stored in the registry. That type of thing. I would
end up with work attributed to one user but actually done by another. We
have a lot of situations in which it's important to us to know who actually
did certain work, and we were running into issues with renamed accounts in
that context.
You can get around a lot of this stuff by searching the registry for the
username and the actual name of the terminated employee, replacing those
with the info for the replacement.
"Steve Parry [MVP]" <k100rs_1990@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e6WqnAQZEHA.2840@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> In news:ej4TIXPZEHA.212@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
> Brad Pears <donotreply@notreal.com> fumbled, fiddled and fingered:
>> We have a situation where our executive secretary has left the
>> company and is being replaced by a new person within a week. Sse has
>> access to many folders within the domain etc.. and some are pretty
>> specific (as opposed to simply group access rights). We have a
>> win2000 SBS server where her profile exists in our domain. We also
>> have an NT 4.0 server (not in the domain). She has a profile on this
>> machine as well with a lot of "file specific" rights to stuff on that
>> particular server.
>>
>> Is there any easy way to convert all of her security rights over to
>> the new user or do you basically have to go through everything and
>> try to find all the instances where she is on the security list and
>> replace herusername with the new username? There must be a better
>> way...
>
> Can you not just rename the old account to the new employees username?
>
> --
> Steve Parry BA (Hons) MCP MVP
>
> http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk
>
>
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