"Easily Update AD Attributes," July 2003, InstantDoc ID 39117, provides a script that updates attributes in Active Directory (AD) by using a comma-separated value (CSV) file or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Since the article's publication, I've received numerous email messages from administrators around the world telling me that the updateattribs.vbs script has saved them countless hours in their efforts to keep their AD user information up-to-date during moves and mergers.
Updateattribs requires that you supply the distinguished name (DN) of the users whose attributes you want to change. You can easily find a user's DN by using the Microsoft ldifde.exe, csvde.exe, or dsquery.exe command-line tool. However, some of the administrators who wrote to me had questions about how to obtain the DNs for their users, so I decided to make the script easier to use by revamping it to take the username as input. I also changed the parameters from unnamed to named.
The Original Version
Let's step back for a few minutes and look at how the original script operates. It requires at least two parameters. The first parameter is the input file formatted as a CSV file or Excel spreadsheet. The second parameter is the name of an output text file in which the script writes a detailed account of every action that it performs. . . .
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