Copy UPN to SamAccountname

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1

Hi Guys,

I am look for an script which point at a specify OU and that it will adjust all the accounts that are in there but not any folders lower.

I found out that i can do it for one user like this:

$user = Get-ADUser -Identity “samaccountname”

$newsam = ($user.userprincipalname -split “@”)[0]

$user | Set-ADUser -SamAccountName $newsam

but now i have to fill in everytime the name of the user and we have like 1000 accounts. Could you please help me?

Thanks in advanced.

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Hi Jaapie,

I think the best way to do this would to be to use the -Searchbase functionality of Get-ADUser, narrow it down to the OU you want to target, assign to a variable, then use a foreach loop to make the changes you want,

import-module ActiveDirectory

$user = Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=users,OU=students,DC=example,DC=internal"

foreach ($user in $users) {

    "Code Here"
    
    }

This will eliminate the need to go through all 1000 users.

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Thanks for you reply Chris. After some testing i managed to get the job done, see script below:

$ou = “OU=users,OU=students,DC=example,DC=internal”

$server = “dc01”

Get-ADUser -SearchBase $ou -Filter * | ForEach-Object {
$newsam = ($.userprincipalname -split “@”)[0]
$ | Set-ADUser -SamAccountName $newsam }

4

Hi Jaapie,

Glad you got it working :smiley: