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Script/method to change UPN suffix for all users in Active Directory

Hi,

I hope someone can help. I have seen similar questions about this issue but am yet to find something that works for me. Although I know my way round AD pretty well, I am fairly novice when it comes to scripting. The new UPN suffix I want to apply is already in AD and I can easily manually change it for individual users but need a method to change it for all users. I want to (naturally) run this against a test OU first to ensure it works as expected. The distinguished name of the OU is "OU=users,OU=test,DC=Emea,DC=domain,DC=net".

As I say, as I am a novice when it comes to scripting, a complete description of how to do this would be ideal.

Thanks

Will Szymkowski

Use the following powershell script to accomplish this...

#Replace with the old suffix
$oldSuffix = 'old.suffix'

#Replace with the new suffix
$newSuffix = 'new.suffix'

#Replace with the OU you want to change suffixes for
$ou = "OU=users,OU=test,DC=Emea,DC=domain,DC=net"

#Replace with the name of your AD server
$server = "test"

Get-ADUser -SearchBase $ou -filter * | ForEach-Object {
$newUpn = $_.UserPrincipalName.Replace($oldSuffix,$newSuffix)
$_ | Set-ADUser -server $server -UserPrincipalName $newUpn
}

Reference: http://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/1457-mass-change-upn-suffix

Thanks

Will

ishamsi

ASKER

Hi Will. I already found that through google but can't get it working. Have you tested it? So I just save the script as <name>.ps1 and run it in powershell?

Will Szymkowski

You need to do a few things...

- Copy this into a txt file, change the file extension to .ps1
- Change the vaules for

#Replace with the old suffix
$oldSuffix = 'old.suffix' (your old domain suffix)

#Replace with the new suffix
$newSuffix = 'new.suffix' (your new domain suffix)

- I have replaced $OU = with your Testing OU location (no need to change)
- For $server = "add your DC server name"

Once you have changed those values you should then be able to run it on the Test OU and it should work fine. If you have any other questions let me know.

ishamsi

ASKER

Yeah, I know about adding my own suffixes etc so that's what I did. Let me run it again now and I'll let you know the error I get.

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