Bulk rename of user accounts in Active Directory

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From: Amihai Bareket (amihai73_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 15:36:53 +0200

Due to a change to the naming policy, I need to rename around 1000 user
accounts in active directory (Windows Server 2003, Native Mode)
The user name (Name & CN) should be like the samAccountName attribute.

I've tried to do it with LDIFDE but I got an error message that I can't
rename the user account because "The attribute is owned by the system".

I can live with a text file that has all the user details (CSV?) because
this is a one time job and I rather be safe then sorry and I think I'd
rather not let the script run fully automatically.

Any ideas on how to do a bulk rename of user account in active directory
through batch/script?

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