Mass attribute change within AD user accounts

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David Hodgson

Hi folks,

I'd like to change an attribute in all my active directory user
accounts, or possibly confine the change to certain OU's. The change
must remove the "Terminal Server" user profile setting from each user
account. I don't want to have to manually go in and change every user,
how do I do it?

many thanks
Dave
 
Dave-

This particular set of properties is a PITA to deal with. ADModify.Net (free
tool from MS) is probably a good bet for this.

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Thanks,
Brian Desmond
Windows Server MVP - Directory Services

www.briandesmond.com
 
Hi folks,

I'd like to change an attribute in all my active directory user
accounts, or possibly confine the change to certain OU's. The change
must remove the "Terminal Server" user profile setting from each user
account. I don't want to have to manually go in and change every user,
how do I do it?

many thanks
Dave

this did it for me...its VB script embedded in MSAccess, so i can feed
a list of usernames and track the results if needed (note this is just
a code snippet without a lot of error checking etc..). Also, i have
the users full ADSpath already saved, so i dont need to look it up
each time, but the code below will do it for you.

Function removetermservices()
' turns off terminal services access to all users in inputted table

Dim xuser As IADsUser
Set db = CurrentDb
Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("select * from tsourceADCurrentusers order
by finalADusername", dbOpenDynaset)


Do While Not rs.EOF
varadspath=getADSpath(rs("username"))
Set xuser = GetObject(varadspath)
Debug.Print xuser.Name
xuser.AllowLogon = 0
xuser.SetInfo
rs.movenext
Loop

End Function

Function getADSpath(varADName)
Set objconn = CreateObject("ADODB.connection")
objconn.Provider = "ADSDSOObject"
objconn.open "Active Directory Provider"

strbase = "<LDAP://dc=abc,dc=xyz,dc=com>;" ' enter your own
domain here,
strfilter = "(&(Objectclass=USER)(samaccountname=" & varADName
& "));"
strattrs = "adspath,cn;"
strscope = "subtree"
' Debug.Print strbase & strfilter & strattrs & strscope
Set objrs = objconn.Execute(strbase & strfilter & strattrs &
strscope)
If Not objrs.EOF Then
getADSPath = objrs("adspath")
End If

End Function
 
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