Account.Edit

Modifies server or workstation user account properties, except password

Notice
Windows 2000 server: AD.Account.SetProperty manages more properties than Account.Edit.

Category
SamAccount

Script section
[Batch], inside Data.Loop..EndLoop statement

Account.Edit SamAccountNameColumnVariable [,SettingsPrefixNumber]

SamAccountNameColumnVariable

Format: %colX%, X = Column in [Data] section with existing SamAccountNames

SettingsPrefixNumber [Optional parameter]

1-5

Properties are normally read from the standard user account settings in the [Settings] section, but when there are more than one account.edit command, or both an account.edit and an account.create command in a script, you probably want to use different settings for the different commands. The solution is to specify a settings prefix number in the account.edit command and precede each normal setting in [Settings] by a prefix number and underscore ("1_", "2_" etc.). See below example.

Tip: set "BatchSettings.Debug=Yes" to display SET variables used by account.edit in the status window.

Other parameters

This command is executed on the current machine in the [Machines] section.

Properties to edit are specified as SamAccount [Settings], only properties included in [Settings] are modified, all other properties are left as is.

Examples
1) Edit properties in a previous "account create" script

·	Open a script (.cnu) file with accounts already created.

·	Replace the command "Account.Create" with "Account Edit".

·	Edit the settings you want to change.

·	Click "Remove markers".

·	Click "Run batch".

2) Settings prefix number example

[Settings_Begin]
SET 1_Account.ProfilePath=%servername%\PROFILES\MYPROFILE
SET 1_Account.FullName.Col=6 
[Settings_End]

[Batch_Begin]
Data.Loop
 Account.Edit %col5%,1
Data.Endloop
[Batch_End]