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find and replace for Active Directory?

Hi folks,

I need to find everyone in a certain department and change the name of that department easily.

Is there a way to do this? Easily?

(If the only solution is a VBscript I will need a bit of hand holding so I can follow and be confident that I'm not going to break something. :) )

Thanks.

James

This link here that I have provided should do the trick and it will output the information in a excel sheet. There is an explaination of what the script does, so make sure to read this.

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/d5c6b119-0337-4b5d-93f3-c409c6cf7a45

brettkm

Account Management Spreadsheet should be able to do what you want. You can load AD objects by OU, edit the propeties in Excel how ever you want, and then export back. Unbelievably handy program.

http://www.wisesoft.co.uk/software/account_management_spreadsheet/default.aspx

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Mike Kline

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Joseph Daly

Building on Mklines suggestions of using the ldap filter I would reccomend the DS series of tools.

dsquery * -filter "(&(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user)(department=dept1))" | dsmod user -dept dept2

You can run this command from any computer with Active directory users and computers installed.

defecta

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Fantastic detail and throughness! :D