aside from just enjoying scripting, i particularly love scripting requests that start with something like -- “i want to know if this is possible…”. my coworker put it best about why scripting is enjoyable. it has a definite start and (usually) a definite end. it comes with a sense of accomplishment when you’re done. that’s nice. kind of like… building a birdhouse or something. anyway, the request was to compare a user’s home directory value to the user id to see if the user has the correct mapping. sometimes while cloning accounts, this process may carry over something undesirable. pretty simple stuff right? let’s pretend you have a user named “Reimer Davies”. his properties are as follows: user id: “ReDavies” home directory: \\myfileserver\redavies$ (yes, i know the mapping is old school home path. this is what i had to deal with so bear with the example. you can always change around the text manipulation statements to make it do what you want.) anyway, her
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