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July, 2012

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Goatee PFE

How to copy AD user attributes to another field with PowerShell

Posted 10 months ago

by Ashley McGlone
- 1 Comments
Have you ever needed to copy data between attributes in Active Directory? Maybe you need to copy an ExtensionAttribute value into a different ExtensionAttribute. Maybe you need to copy email, UPN, or SIP addresses. You may even want to move the EmployeeNumber value into the EmployeeID attribute instead. What if you needed to create a new Description based on a combination from other attributes?
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Goatee PFE

Free Downloads: Windows PowerShell 3.0 Quick Reference Guides

Posted 11 months ago

by Ashley McGlone
- 0 Comments
Hey folks. In case you missed it PowerShell Magazine created some handy guides for getting started with the new PowerShell v3 features. We posted them here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30002 "Quickly learn tips, shortcuts...