Re: Change Domain User Account Name

From: David (deaton_at_nospamever.dsnonline.org)
Date: 11/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:42:40 GMT

Thanks for responding. We haven't had any issues, just the inconvenience of
having to manually rename redirected folders and profile path and profile
folders, etc, then fixing the paths. Just thought a tool has probably been
developed for a domain-wide user name change since it happens so often.
Microsoft may have one I just don't know about.

"Sundaram Narayanan[MSFT]" <sunnar@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> You should be able to rename a domain user account without any need to
> change any permissions because renaming attributes like First Name, Last
> Name etc does not change the SID of the principal which is what is used
> for tracking permissions on shares etc. Have you tried this and had
> issues?
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> "David" <deaton@nospamever.dsnonline.org> wrote in message
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>> People keep getting married and changing their names around here. Is
>> there an easy way to change a domain user account and make all of thier
>> redirected folders and file permissions correct? Seems this is a pretty
>> common problem, but couldn't find anything in the KBs.
>> Thanks!
>> David
>>
>
>

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