Account Management - MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration - page 160

Figure 5-5

The Properties for Multiple Items dialog box

Editing multiple items isn't limited to user accounts, although it's most useful with these
objects. You can edit multiple computer and group accounts and even objects of differing types,
but the only attribute you can edit for these object types is the Description field.

Understanding Account Properties
After an account is created, your work as an administrator is just beginning. User account prop-
erties aren't static and require modification from time to time. Users might need their password
changed, their group memberships altered, their logon restrictions modified, and other account
changes. You explore user account properties in this section by examining some tabs in a user
account's Properties dialog box. However, some account changes can be made only by right-
clicking a user account or using the Action menu of Active Directory Users and Computers:
• Reset a password —If users forget their passwords or are prohibited from changing them,
administrators can reset a password by right-clicking the user account and clicking Reset
Password or using the Action menu.
• Rename an account —The object name shown in the Name column of Active Directory
Users and Computers is referred to as the common name (CN). For example, the CN of
the user you created in Activity 5-2 is Sales Person1. A user account's CN is taken from
the Full name field when the user is created. You can change a user account's CN only by
right-clicking the account or using the Action menu. Changing the name fields in the
General tab of the account's Properties dialog box doesn't change the CN.
• Move an account —You can move a user account, or any Active Directory object, with one
of three methods:
• Right-click the user and click Move. (You can also click Action, Move from the menu.)
You're then prompted to select the container to which you're moving the object.
• Right-click the user and click Cut. (You can also click Action, Cut from the menu.) Then
open a container object and paste the user into the container.
• Drag the user from one container to another.