Copying SAMAccount names to "Name"

[colweb]

Hi there,

Heres a good one!

We have 1200+ user accounts. We have a company "Global Shortname" standard for all our user accounts - 8 characters long.

We want to update all our "DirectoryName" fields with the contents of the "SAMAccount" attribute, on all our IDs.

We have tried using LDIFDE within a script, also tried ADSI Edit on the same attribute and get the same error for both methods - "Cannot change this attribute as it is owned by the system" - Although Users and Computers and Hyena can change these on a user by user basis.

Do you know of the way round this? I'm stuffed if I'm going through 1200 user IDs manually!!!

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Colin Scott.

[cmccullough]

Re: Copying SAMAccount names to "Name"

You might try something like NTSEC from pedestalsoftware.com to see if it will help. It is a suite of command line utilities, so you would need to create a batch file with the desired information, and then run the batch file.