Update an Active Directory Resource Information on All Project Workspaces

[Charles L. Simpson]

I have an Active Directory account for a resource who will be changing a lot
of information (email, username, full name). She is a member of a lot of
projects. We use Active Directory for authentication. I know that
SharePoint prefers old information to new information (SharePoint does not
update Active Directory information). I think that you have to remove the
person from the site collection then add them back to whatever they had
access to. I don't want to have to do this to each Project Workspace
individually. Anyone know how to do this easier?

Thanks!
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Charles L. Simpson
ACT, Inc.
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Current Setup:
WSS 2.0 (no service packs)
Project Server 2003 SP1
SQL Server 2000 SP3a
FrontPage 2003 SP2
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[Paul Conroy Designtech]

Have you considered merging the two account together in Project Server ?

 

[Charles L. Simpson]

The problem is not with Project Server. It is with those Project
Workspaces. SharePoint user information does not update when an existing
Active Directory account changes (i.e., email address, username, last name,
etc).

So, if I had an employee who got married and her last name changed ... then
in Active Directory they would change her last name, email address and
username but keep the same Active Directory account. This presents a
problem for the Project Workspaces where a Project Manager has added users
as when Active Directory is updated, SharePoint user information is not.
The only solution that I have been able to find is to remove the user from
the Site Collection and readd them using their new username. To make
matters worse, each Project Workspace is created in its own Site Collection,
so I would have to do this for about 300 projects.

I'm looking for a simpler way of doing this (some kind of batch file/script
to tell SharePoint to look at all the user accounts, compare them to Active
Directory and update as needed)

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Charles L. Simpson
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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (no service packs)
Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 SP1
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ACT, Inc.
http://www.act.org

 

[Paul Conroy Designtech]

Hi Charles,

Have you tried this ?

I would have expected the sites to be associated with the user GUID and not
the username !

Paul