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Copying a new user from an existing user in ADUC

In Active Directory Users and Computers, one can right click on an existing account and select "Copy" to create a new user account which includes much of the same information as the original account (Department, Title, Group Memberships, etc.).  I would like to know how to add and remove the attributes that it copies over into the new user.  I suspect this is doable through adsiedit.msc but have not been able to discover how.
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Thank you Chris.  So looking at one of the current attributes that is copying, the search flag is set to 0x11 = (INDEX | COPY).  Two questions for you:
1) Would I mirror that entry in other attributes I wished to copy over?
2) What would I change that to if I wanted a particular attribute to stop copying.
Thanks very much!
 

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Old RA, not to worry :)

1. Yes.

2. Remove the flag, so if it's included you would remove 16 from the value. Only if that value is included though, that's normally where we resort to scripts which can do bitwise-AND operations without having to think hard :)

Chris
Thank you very much!!
Thank you very much for your information!!