Rem: Managing Terminal Services Profile Settings

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My company is planning to migrate 4000 users from Windows NT to Windows 2000. I want to automate the migration of the users' Terminal Services Profile path from NT to Win2K. I plan to use a third-party utility to export the Terminal Services Profile path from NT, then use Microsoft Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) to update the field in Active Directory (AD). However, I can't find where AD stores that information. Where can I find the user attributes listed on the Terminal Services Profile tab of the User Properties dialog box?

The userParameters attribute stores all the Terminal Services Profile settings for a user account. But you can't use ADSI to modify userParam-eters for two reasons. First, to achieve backward compatibility and interoperability, the SAM stores the actual userParameters settings. Second, userParameters is a binary object that doesn't expose its structure through ADSI. Thus, your options to automate the management of Terminal Services Profile are as follows: