Active Directory User Management Help

[CBuxton]

How can I edit multiple users at once in Windows 2000 Active Directory?? Seems rather trivial, but in NT4 you could simply highlight multiple users, go to properties, and add things like logon scripts, and mass changes to the home drive (this is exactly what I want to do with Active Directory). I used the AD Migration Tool to move my users over from NT4, but now need to redirect their home directories, and put a different logon script filename into that box. I just cannot seem to figure out how to make a change for a selected number of users except if I do them one at a time! I cannot believe that Microsoft would remove this functionality from Windows 2k, so I must be overlooking something somewhere. Thanks for any help!

 

[DAM]

have you put them into groups? in my case i have a couple of groups, one is "admins" the other is "everyone" all rules are set on the group level and they trickle to the individual user.








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[err]

I believe this is not what he wants. He wants to be able to modify the properties of multiple users at the same time, not assigning permissions to users.

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[ozds]

Don't know how to do it, but you ought to look into scripting with ADSI to do this. If you can find a site with some decent information, they ought to have examples for that very thing, would imagine needing to do this would be at least decently common.

 

[Shadow07]

A couple of tips.

1. There is no GUI way of adding/removing attributes of users/groups. This is a problem with the way Microsoft built the MMC. In newer versions, we will have the ability of editing multiple users/groups at the same time, and also with the addition of right-click.

2. You can create scripts that will do this. I would goto Microsoft's Technet site and search for ADSI. I would also make a trip to MSDN and search once more for ADSI. There are a lot of whitepapers on ADSI.

Let me know if you have any further problems/questions.