RE: unlock user accounts en masse

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Well, this is not really scripting, but it is what I use to work with a lot
of accounts at once.

On the Domain controler open the comand promt and run a dsquery on the OU
that you want to modify then pip that output to a dsmod comand to activate
those users.

For example
dsquery user "ou=Technology Staff,dc=mydomain,dc=com" | dsmod user -disabled
no

this would activate all the users in the Technology Staff OU.

I hope that helps

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Randy <><
http://www.stuartsdesigns.com


"Sam B." wrote:

> I've seen the syntax on unlocking a user account, but is there a way to
> enumerate the list of users in a given container/OU and then incrementally
> unlock the accounts? I've done some digging around and haven't found pieces
> that I could get to work together.
>
> If it's not possible, I'd like to know that, too.
>
>
>
.

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