molly22
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Moving user accounts and Home Directory.
I need to move all user accounts from one OU to another OU along with their home directory folder.
Need best practice or best tool to do this.
Need best practice or best tool to do this.
Just have to move user is simple as select users, right clik move them to other OU.
not sure what do you mean by along home directory??
not sure what do you mean by along home directory??
Like pony10us said, that's how you move the users. or you can simply drag and drop.
As far as changing the home directory path, if you're reffering to the Home Folder under the profile tab of the user properties, then do the following to change them all at once
Note that this assumes all your users are mapped to the same path with only the last child folder being the username
1. Select all the users you want to update
2. Right click > Properties
3. Profile tab
4. check the box next to Home Folder
5. Change path to \\YourServer\YourShare\Som
this will set the path for a user with a username of jDoe to \\YourServer\YourShare\Som
As far as changing the home directory path, if you're reffering to the Home Folder under the profile tab of the user properties, then do the following to change them all at once
Note that this assumes all your users are mapped to the same path with only the last child folder being the username
1. Select all the users you want to update
2. Right click > Properties
3. Profile tab
4. check the box next to Home Folder
5. Change path to \\YourServer\YourShare\Som
this will set the path for a user with a username of jDoe to \\YourServer\YourShare\Som
Home Directory is basically just another attribute, as long as you move the object you should not have to do anything with the homedirectory.
As MaximumIQ stated, you can bulk change where the users look for their "home folder" using the properties.
You can also make the change a few other ways such as through GPO, DMOD or PS script.
If you need to move the actual folders with content then it becomes a bit more involved.
You can also make the change a few other ways such as through GPO, DMOD or PS script.
If you need to move the actual folders with content then it becomes a bit more involved.
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We are a school system; when our middle school students move up to the high schools we can move their user accounts to the High School OU, no problem. We would also like for the Home Directory to move from file server at middle school to the file server at High School. We now have to manually move home directory and change the path to home directory in their profile.
when we were a Novell house using Novell Storage manager to manage user and files. Novell storage would move home directory when we moved the user account.
Are there any thing like Novell Storage Manager for Windows?
when we were a Novell house using Novell Storage manager to manage user and files. Novell storage would move home directory when we moved the user account.
Are there any thing like Novell Storage Manager for Windows?
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Move user accounts from one OU to another is just a matter of highlighting the user(s) and right clicking. Select Move... and then select what OU you want to move them to.