Vista - copy files with AD attributes in name??

I have a folder full of employee pictures.
The name format is from active directory, as
"sn, givenname.JPG"

Now I have a web app that can not access the first and last name to display the picture.
It only knows the SAMAccountName.

Does anyone have a clue where to start with a script to copy these files from
"sn, givenname.JPG" to "SAMAccountName.jpg" ??


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Steven

http://www.glimasoutheast.org

# use -recurse (on get-childitem) to traverse sub dirs

get-childitem *.jpg | foreach {

# parse jpg file name to extract sn and givenname
$regex = ([regex]'^(?<sn>[^,]*),\s(?<gn>[^.]*)\.jpg$').matches($_.name)

$sn = $regex[0].groups['sn'].value
$gn = $regex[0].groups['gn'].value

# cant test it right now, place here the code to
# search AD for users that match $sn and $gn, get its samaccountname
$samaccountname = "shaylevi" # testing

rename-item $_ -newname "$samaccountname.jpg"
}





Shay
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

Here is a function to find a AD user with sn and GivenName
function Find-ADUserwithSN{
param($sn,$givenName)
$root = [ADSI]"LDAP://192.168.0.10"
$filter = "(&(objectcategory=user)(sn=$sn))"
$props = "sn","givenName","sAMAccountName"
$ds = new-Object
system.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher($root,$filter,$props)
$ds.findall() | ?{$_.properties.givenname -match $givenName} |
%{$_.properties.samaccountname}
}

"Shay Levi" <no@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8766a94473e48c9c54a78b4b1a8@xxxxxx

btw.. I did a match instead of an equal so it maybe possible to get more
than one return... I did that so you can determine the error case on your
own. You may want to write those to a file or what have you.

"Brandon Shell" <tshell.mask@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23kz9W309HHA.600@xxxxxx

Thanks for the regex.

I cheaped out and just used the following:
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# use -recurse (on get-childitem) to traverse sub dirs

get-childitem \\tg16\EmployeePhotos\@all\*.jpg | foreach {
$sn = ""
$gn = ""

# parse jpg file name to extract sn and givenname
$regex = ([regex]'^(?<sn>[^,]*),\s(?<gn>[^.]*)\.[Jj][Pp][Gg]$').matches($_.name)

$sn = $regex[0].groups['sn'].value
$gn = $regex[0].groups['gn'].value

copy-item $_ "\\tg16\EmployeePhotos\@firstlast\$gn$sn.jpg"
}
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It was sufficient, since our AD login naming convention is "FirstName""LastName".

The more I use PowerShell, the more I like it.
It seems much more intuitive to me than VBS, of course, my Unix background has a little to do with it.

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Steven

http://www.glimasoutheast.org



"Shay Levi" <no@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:8766a94473e48c9c54a78b4b1a8@xxxxxx

BTW, the regex is not case sensitive so "jpg" is much more understanable

Shay
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

Sorry, I was wrong. It is case sensetive.

Shay
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com