Nice find, thanks! I'd rather not make it non hidden, we have all the smart users :)
I'll try something with script vars maybe... jlc From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Ah... okay, so I see now, and it looks like dsmod might have trouble with the $ on the end of the hidden share. If you take that out, it works--others have reported this problem as well. I noticed if you put a $ anywhere before $username$, it just doesn't resolve, almost as if $username$ is the only thing the command expects when it sees the $ symbol. If you put $username$ first, the name resolves successfully. http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=4689 http://forums.techarena.in/active-directory/548004.htm Since you're changing them all anyway, could you load up ABE and make a non-hidden sharename? -Bonnie From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Not according to the docs, plus that would cause the shell to sub in possibly "my" username... jlc From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Shouldn't that be %username% ? -Bonnie From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Hrm, so in reading, $username$ is supposedly expanded (Though I was skeptical) and it didn't? I ran: dsquery user -name Ros* "OU=Domain Users,OU=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=local" | dsmod user -profile \\xxx\Profiles$\$username$<file:///\\xxx\Profiles$\$username$> And the path was written as it was typed? Anyone know how to make this wildcard expand? Thanks! jlc From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 6:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change You have it right, there were both apples and oranges in the discussion, and DSMOD USER applies to the apples but not the oranges. You figured out the oranges on your own (GPO for redirected folders). ADModify also applies to the apples problem, gives a nice GUI to mass modify almost anything in AD user accounts. Carl From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 8:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Redirected folders can be done via gpo, but I didn't know roaming profiles could be? That's what I am changing, the associated paths for the profile which that tool does. Thanks guys! jlc From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change 'dsmod user' changes AD attributes for a user account. OP seems to want to change items in a roaming profile that is presently resident in a server share. Presumably he wants to make changes to the profile's user registry or other content in the stored profile, such that those changes will take effect the next time the user logs in. I think you're looking at login script or a GPO for those things are are GPO'able. The next question is, what kind of changes are you trying to make? Have you checked to see if they're already controllable by an existing GPO? Carl From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change You can definitely do that with dsmod. Run 'dsmod user /? |more' for more info From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Thanks for all the quick responses! Sorry, I meant the users Roaming Profile. jlc From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Such as what, specifically? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change I have a slew of redirected profile changes to make. I was hoping to obviously script this. Anyone got a pointer to a doc or anything they could share? I don't want to be here late tonight, again! <grin> Thanks, jlc ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
