Ok, yes, we are going to talk about scripting, BUUUUT before you touch that remote, let me show you how easy it can be. I even give you a complete script and example file to download. In this article I hope to give you enough knowledge to be able to implement this script for your own purposes. As a disclaimer, this is not the only way, not may it be the best way to address this issue programmatically, but it is an attempt to give some relief to a common problem.

Say you’re in charge of administrating mail, or just about anything in AD and you need to change a lot of things FAST. A common scenario is a change of address, manager, country, dept, etc, etc. I was rolling out Exchange 2000 in a remote office and needed to update a number of accounts that were created using the Migration Wizard. Due to the number of users and the possibility of typo’s, I thought the easiest this to do was to go for a script based solution. After a bit of searching, cutting and pasting, I had some usable scripts that allowed me to bulk update the new entries in AD without to much work on my part.

In this article were going to deal with changing the things that are more or less static and do not need to be changed for every user. We’ll deal bulk updating individual things like telephone numbers, and titles in Part 2.

Simple is as simple does