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Title should be 'Renaming AD Accounts'
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You have to manually rename those directories at the same time. &nbsp;Otherwise, as you observed, it is going to maintain the pointers to the existing directories. &nbsp;<br />
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Coralon
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You have to manually rename those directories at the same time.  Otherwise, as you observed, it is going to maintain the pointers to the existing directories.  

Coralon

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Need to manually do this in :<br />
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software<wbr />\Microsoft<wbr />\Windows\C<wbr />urrentVers<wbr />ion\Explor<wbr />er\User Shell Folders <br />
Olaf
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Need to manually do this in :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
Olaf

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Hi All,<br />
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Thanks for that. So after renaming the AD accounts, I have to amend the registry on all 109 PCs and laptops?<br />
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-GNS
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Hi All,

Thanks for that. So after renaming the AD accounts, I have to amend the registry on all 109 PCs and laptops?

-GNS

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Yes <br />
You can automate it with a batch file.<br />
<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727154.aspx" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727154.aspx</a><br />
Roll out the batch file with GP.<br />
Olaf
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Yes
You can automate it with a batch file.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727154.aspx [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727154.aspx]
Roll out the batch file with GP.
Olaf

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Hi,<br />
<br />
A customer wants their AD logons changed from 'w_alias' to 'forename.surname'. I have done this on a test account, rename when okay, the redirected documents folder worked okay, but the redirected desktop still points to the old account name. I tried this on three other machine with two accounts but get the same. <br />
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The folder redirection is handled by Group Policy and are on the same GPO. All clients are on Windows 7 SP1 64bit.<br />
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gpupdate /force did not work.<br />
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Anyone have any ideas?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
<br />
-GNS
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Hi,

A customer wants their AD logons changed from 'w_alias' to 'forename.surname'. I have done this on a test account, rename when okay, the redirected documents folder worked okay, but the redirected desktop still points to the old account name. I tried this on three other machine with two accounts but get the same. 

The folder redirection is handled by Group Policy and are on the same GPO. All clients are on Windows 7 SP1 64bit.

gpupdate /force did not work.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

-GNS

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