Active Directory: Changing home folder servername

When migrating filservers and you are using the “Home Folder” setting of an AD user’s object like here:

From:

To:

It would be great just to edit all objects in bulk, with this script, it is possible:

Import-Module ActiveDirectory


$oldServerName = "oldserver"
$newServerName = "newserver"



$AllUsers = Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter '(name=*)' -SearchBase "DC=domain,DC=local" -Properties HomeDirectory


foreach($user in $AllUsers){


if(($user.HomeDirectory.ToString()).contains($oldServerName)){
$homeDirectory = ($user.HomeDirectory.ToString()) -replace $oldServerName, $newServerName
Set-ADUser $user.DistinguishedName -HomeDirectory $homeDirectory
}


}

Remember servername is CASE SENSITIVE! So if the oldserver is all with small letters, and you type them with CAPS, it will change nothing 🙂

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https://www.experts-exchange.com/members/justinyeung.html