From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: Management and Implementation
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Performing bulk operations - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: Management and Implementation
Performing bulk operations
Sometimes when working with your Active Directory database, you'll be required to perform the same action on multiple objects at the same time, or be repetitive and perform the same action on multiple different objects. As an example, let's say for instance when you created the objects, you forgot to set the state, or you didn't put in the city, which if you were creating the object using the Active Directory users and computers, we saw that the interface doesn't allow you to create that attribute. And then you would have to go in and set it. So let's say you had 50 objects, and you wanted to go in and add the city, or you wanted to add the state, or you wanted to add a department. Doing them one at a time through the Active Directory users and computers or through the Active Directory Administrative Center could be a very time consuming and tedious job. So one of the tools that we have, or some of the tools that we have, is the ability to do bulk operations so that I can select a…
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