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How Can I Tell On What Date an Active Directory User Account Was Created?

January 6, 2005 Jan 6, 2005 01/6/05
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there any way to tell the date that an Active Directory user account was created?-- DD(image) (image) (image) Hey, DD. And thanks: between the work that piled up over the holidays, the upcoming Scripting Week 2, and a nasty flu bug that’s going around, it’s nice to have a question that can be answered ...

How Can I Put New Users in the Same OU as the Person Creating Their Accounts?

November 19, 2004 Nov 19, 2004 11/19/04
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We use a script to create user accounts. How can I modify this script so that it will place the new user in the same OU as the person running the script?-- CB(image) (image) (image) Hey, CB. Interesting question. We’re assuming that you’ve delegated control of Active Directory. User A, for example, has the ...

How Can I Change a User’s Password?

October 15, 2004 Oct 15, 2004 10/15/04
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change a user’s password using a script?-- GO(image) (image) (image) Hey, GO. You didn’t indicate whether you wanted to change the password for a local user or for an Active Directory user. But that’s OK: the processes are so similar we’ll go ahead and show you how to do both. It’s like ...

How Do I Bind to a User Account in a Sub-OU?

September 17, 2004 Sep 17, 2004 09/17/04
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How do I bind to a user account when the user is in a sub-OU? Code like this doesn’t work: LDAP://CN=Ken Meyer, OU=NA\Human Resources, DC=fabrikam, dc=com.-- RD(image) (image) (image) Hey, RD. The past few days we’ve done some lengthy answers to questions, so we decided to be a little lazy today (hey, it is ...