Change Domain User Account Name

[David]

People keep getting married and changing their names around here. Is there
an easy way to change a domain user account and make all of thier redirected
folders and file permissions correct? Seems this is a pretty common problem,
but couldn't find anything in the KBs.
Thanks!
David

 

[Sundaram Narayanan[MSFT]]

You should be able to rename a domain user account without any need to
change any permissions because renaming attributes like First Name, Last
Name etc does not change the SID of the principal which is what is used for
tracking permissions on shares etc. Have you tried this and had issues?

 

[David]

Thanks for responding. We haven't had any issues, just the inconvenience of
having to manually rename redirected folders and profile path and profile
folders, etc, then fixing the paths. Just thought a tool has probably been
developed for a domain-wide user name change since it happens so often.
Microsoft may have one I just don't know about.