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I have 1500 user accounts within an 4 different OU's. I am going to convert these accounts to Roaming profiles utilising folder redirection to share the load. The problem I have is I am going to have to go through each user account and set the profile path. Does anyone happen to have a script that would save me approx 1.5 days and a cramped hand.

I am going to learn scripting, Honest It is a must.

The task:-

go through OU name 'intake year xxx' - go through each user and set the profile path to \\server\intake xxx\%Username%

Any help will be really appreciated

MAZDAN


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i could cook something up if its not that urgent
i dont have anything to hand that does that specifically, and im moving tomorrow, so if its urgent you might want to hope someone else can help as i wont be back to any form of normality for a few days atleast!

let me know if its not perticularly urgent

should be doable with four simple WMI/ADSI script that read four text files containing the new paths
the ADSI could read the contents of the OU, concanate them and parse the new value to them, its a bit more complex than that but thats the general idea, im not a scripting guru either and it could be done with one script by an expert

 

Thanks for the offer Phoenix, nothing more stressful than moving mate
I am going to need something as soon as I have 3 days to implement the new profiles. I am also going around 1500 computers configuring a standardised start menu within the all users profile + a few other maintenance tasks. I was thinking a script of some sort would save by backside as I am going to be pushed for time on this one. I work within a school environment and we will have 3000 children back in after Friday lol.

I still think your move is more stressful though

MAZDAN

 

Just a thought! As I only have 4 – 5 different OU’s containing users I could easily manually set the path within the script apposed to coding the script to read in files. I am sure this would be easier?

Tell you what I have to learn this stuff. I know it will save me hours. If only you could do it in SQL LOL

Any help would be most appreciated

MAZDAN

 

Hi MAZDAN

I posted a script for something similar a while ago here. Only that one removed the profile. I don't have time right now but I'll take a look later and modify it for you.

 

Phil, you are a star mate. I owe you one 'big time'

Thanks a million

MAZDAN

 

When you post it I take it I just need to set the OU name i.e. '1997 intake' and the profile path i.e. '\\server\share\1997 intake\%username%'

Just confirm the script will understand what to do with %username%

Thanks again

MAZDAN

 

Fantastic thanks .

Just gave it a try on my test server and got an error object not found. I take it this is because I have a sub OU's i.e.

OU = Useraccounts
- SubOU = Pupils
- SubSubOu = intake 2000
- SubSubOu = intake 1999
- SubSubOu = intake 1998
- SubOU = Staff
- SubSubOU = Admin
- SubSubOU = Curriculum

I am sure it is a little tweek to the following line. Any ideas?

'This line attaches to the OU
Set colAccounts = GetObject("LDAP://ou=intake 2000,dc=weasrv01,dc=school,dc=wirral,dc=sch,dc=uk")

Thanks again

MAZDAN

 

Based on the OU config you've given I would have thought the line should be

Set colAccounts = GetObject("LDAP://ou=intake 2000,ou=pupils,ou=useraccounts,dc=weasrv01,dc=school,dc=wirral,dc=sch,dc=uk")

HTH

 

Yes that is the kitten, works a dream .......

Thank you all sooooo much. you have really took the preasure off me.


MAZDAN