Move Roaming profiles

All,

What is the easiest way to change the roaming profile path for a large
number of users in one go? We need to perform a upgrade on the server that
currently hosts the roaming profile and need to change the path on approx 300
users.

Lanwench
Thu Mar 27 09:32:09 PDT 2008

Richardw <Richardw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> What is the easiest way to change the roaming profile path for a large
> number of users in one go? We need to perform a upgrade on the server
> that currently hosts the roaming profile and need to change the path
> on approx 300 users.

Presuming W2003, select them all, right click, properties.

Richardw
Thu Mar 27 09:45:00 PDT 2008


Hi, yes it is w2003. however all our users have been broken down into OU's
relating to their location and as have 40 locations I was kinda hoping that
there would be a easier way. We have tried AD modify, but this did not
function correctly. it just set all profiles as
\\servername\sharename\USERNAME even though we had used the %username%
variable

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

> Richardw <Richardw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > What is the easiest way to change the roaming profile path for a large
> > number of users in one go? We need to perform a upgrade on the server
> > that currently hosts the roaming profile and need to change the path
> > on approx 300 users.
>
> Presuming W2003, select them all, right click, properties.
>
>
>

Don
Thu Mar 27 13:09:03 PDT 2008

I have posted a vbscript that will do it by OU. Feel free to email me if you
need help with it, but its pretty simple to modify. (email is on site)
http://www.atthedatacenter.com/vbscript/changeProfilePathADUC.htm
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Hope it helps!

dw

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Don Wilwol
www.atthedatacenter.com



"Richardw" <Richardw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AC0D6AE9-5BBF-4ADC-9874-8FF9EC9BD17A@microsoft.com...
>
> Hi, yes it is w2003. however all our users have been broken down into OU's
> relating to their location and as have 40 locations I was kinda hoping
> that
> there would be a easier way. We have tried AD modify, but this did not
> function correctly. it just set all profiles as
> \\servername\sharename\USERNAME even though we had used the %username%
> variable
>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
>
>> Richardw <Richardw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> > All,
>> >
>> > What is the easiest way to change the roaming profile path for a large
>> > number of users in one go? We need to perform a upgrade on the server
>> > that currently hosts the roaming profile and need to change the path
>> > on approx 300 users.
>>
>> Presuming W2003, select them all, right click, properties.
>>
>>
>>

Richardw
Fri Mar 28 07:28:01 PDT 2008

I think I have found the problem I was having with admodify. It does not work
with the variable %username% as this is not a AD attribute, instead you have
to use the variable %'sAMAccountName'%

"Richardw" wrote:

>
> Hi, yes it is w2003. however all our users have been broken down into OU's
> relating to their location and as have 40 locations I was kinda hoping that
> there would be a easier way. We have tried AD modify, but this did not
> function correctly. it just set all profiles as
> \\servername\sharename\USERNAME even though we had used the %username%
> variable
>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
>
> > Richardw <Richardw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > What is the easiest way to change the roaming profile path for a large
> > > number of users in one go? We need to perform a upgrade on the server
> > > that currently hosts the roaming profile and need to change the path
> > > on approx 300 users.
> >
> > Presuming W2003, select them all, right click, properties.
> >
> >
> >