Mass Modifying Home Folder

Justin Smith 1 Reputation point
2021-03-25T13:48:54.153+00:00

Currently working on a project to migrate users over to a new file server. The new server will have a similar name, just one character different. Every user has a personal share mapped using the home folder in Active Directory with a naming convention of their last name and the first letter of their first name. I have the following put together, but I cant figure out how to get the individual paths to set correctly

Get-ADUser -SearchBase "$ou" -Filter * | Set-ADUser -HomeDirectory:"\$fileserver(LastF Goes Here)\"

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. My knowledge of how to Powershell drops off a cliff when it gets more complex than a piped command.

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A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
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  1. Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 29,491 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2021-03-26T05:57:13.59+00:00

    Hi,

    If the first name and the last name are stored in the properties GivenName and Surname you can do it like below 

    Get-ADUser -SearchBase $ou -Filter * | ForEach-Object {  
     Set-ADUser $_ -HomeDirectory "\\$fileserver\$($_.Surname)$($_.GivenName[0])"  
}

    Best Regards,
    Ian Xue

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