Active directory - quick and probably daft question!

[Raumarik]

I need to select all of the users in a group and make changes to them all at once (alt+enter) just to put in a department title. I tried the "find" and group is exactly "group name" but it doesn't find any users when I do this.

anyone know of another method, I have about 700 users to add departments to but annoyingly they're all in 5 groups, so I could do it very quickly if I could select/highlight them by group and Alt+enter them!

 

[Andyt_uk]

vb scripts Easiest way to do it. You can usually supply it with a txt file of names and it will run through them and add the details. Theres no easy way of doing it using the GUI unfortunately. I would send you my old scripts but unfortunately i've lost them in a re-format. A quick google should point you in the right direction though.

 

[aix0]

I'm sure you could use some combination of DSQUERY/DSGET/DSMOD to achieve the same result, maybe a touch more simple. Not too sure, it's been a while since i've used them.

All that this will allow you to do is, query users / groups etc based on their properties and pipe them to a DSMOD command. Which as you guessed, will modify the details / properties of Active Directory objects.

Have a google around for those, quite simple to use too.

Hope this helps you out