Renaming all user profiles to *.old

wirestyle22

Is there a script I can run do to this? My boss is helping a friends company who had a single DC/DNS server which of course crashed. He needs to re-create the domain and is going to need to go to each individual computer to rename the profiles unless there is another way.

EDIT: On Windows 7.

scottalanmiller

On Windows, should be mentioned.

Alex Sage

http://www.lazywinadmin.com/2013/10/powershell-renaming-bunch-of-folders.html

This is a good place to start.....

Reid Cooper

Could always use it as an excuse to re-image the environment as well. Just take backups and do fresh installs.

wirestyle22

@Reid-Cooper said in Renaming all user profiles to *.old:

Could always use it as an excuse to re-image the environment as well. Just take backups and do fresh installs.

That's what I want to do but it's not going to happen $:\$

IRJ

Another option is slightly changing the name of the internal domain once it is rebuilt. I believe that should create new user profiles even if users have the same username.

IRJ

@Reid-Cooper said in Renaming all user profiles to *.old:

Could always use it as an excuse to re-image the environment as well. Just take backups and do fresh installs.

This is my recommendation. If there is only one DC, you probably don't have more than a 100 domain joined devices, right?

IRJ

Since you are starting from scratch again, this is a good article to read.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/34981.active-directory-best-practices-for-internal-domain-and-network-names.aspx

wirestyle22

@IRJ said in Renaming all user profiles to *.old:

@Reid-Cooper said in Renaming all user profiles to *.old:

Could always use it as an excuse to re-image the environment as well. Just take backups and do fresh installs.

This is my recommendation. If there is only one DC, you probably don't have more than a 100 domain joined devices, right?

They have somewhere near 60 workstations. Completely re-creating it isn't going to happen unfortunately. Boss is just doing a favor and doesn't want to invest the time re-creating all of the users and everything.

Reid Cooper

You could... accidentally run a script that would make you required to rebuild everything.

wirestyle22

@Reid-Cooper said in Renaming all user profiles to *.old:

You could... accidentally run a script that would make you required to rebuild everything.

Nah, it's not my job to force them to make the right decisions. Not even my friend

Reid Cooper

@wirestyle22 said in Renaming all user profiles to *.old:

@Reid-Cooper said in Renaming all user profiles to *.old:

You could... accidentally run a script that would make you required to rebuild everything.

Nah, it's not my job to force them to make the right decisions. Not even my friend

Well then, do whatever bills the most.