User Naming Convention

newhouse1390 · 02-19-2007, 02:14 PM

We want to come up with a standard naming convention. Right now users are half one way half another. What is the bast way to change the user names of existing users with having little effect on their ability to access resources.

The only thing that I am concerned about is the My Documents location. Right now Folder redirection is enabled and routed to a share based on username. If I change the user name will that affect that users ability to connect with their documents.

I am planning on testing this...obviously the implications of a bad deployment could be a nightmere. I want to see what everyone else says before we start down one way.

Right now names are:

FIRST INITIAL UNDERSCORE LASTNAME
ex. J_smith

I want to do this:

LASTNAME(FIRST INITIAL)
ex. smithj

Thanks.

whardman · 02-21-2007, 07:06 AM

You could create a script that runs through all of the folders and rename them.

Code:

if contains "_"
   first = substr(foldername,0,1)
   last = substr(foldername,2)
foldername = last & first

NOTE: this is pseudo-code not VBScript

newhouse1390 · 02-21-2007, 09:03 AM

In the test environment the renaming of just the network logon name seemed to have no effects on connection to other network resources. It knows to map the user to their respective folder (already existing).

nsimpson · 02-28-2007, 07:02 PM

When you change a user's login name, this only changes the samAccountName and userPrincipalName. The network resources dependencies for a user is usually dependent on the user's displayName.

02-19-2007, 02:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
newhouse1390 Member, Networking Team Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,040 OS: Windows Server 2003	User Naming Convention We want to come up with a standard naming convention. Right now users are half one way half another. What is the bast way to change the user names of existing users with having little effect on their ability to access resources. The only thing that I am concerned about is the My Documents location. Right now Folder redirection is enabled and routed to a share based on username. If I change the user name will that affect that users ability to connect with their documents. I am planning on testing this...obviously the implications of a bad deployment could be a nightmere. I want to see what everyone else says before we start down one way. Right now names are: FIRST INITIAL UNDERSCORE LASTNAME ex. J_smith I want to do this: LASTNAME(FIRST INITIAL) ex. smithj Thanks. __________________ Because you can read this thank a teacher, because it's English thank a soldier.

02-21-2007, 07:06 AM	#2 (permalink)
whardman Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 617 OS: Windows XP My System	You could create a script that runs through all of the folders and rename them. Code: if contains "_" first = substr(foldername,0,1) last = substr(foldername,2) foldername = last & first NOTE: this is pseudo-code not VBScript

02-21-2007, 09:03 AM	#3 (permalink)
newhouse1390 Member, Networking Team Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,040 OS: Windows Server 2003	In the test environment the renaming of just the network logon name seemed to have no effects on connection to other network resources. It knows to map the user to their respective folder (already existing). __________________ Because you can read this thank a teacher, because it's English thank a soldier.

02-28-2007, 07:02 PM	#4 (permalink)
nsimpson Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 1 OS: XP	When you change a user's login name, this only changes the samAccountName and userPrincipalName. The network resources dependencies for a user is usually dependent on the user's displayName. __________________ Regards, NickSimpson.org Team