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Have you ever needed to edit a lot of  Active Directory user objects at once... potentially even thousands! This capability typically has been limited to scripting, ldifde.exe or third party utilities ($). Now enter ADModify, a free utility available from www.gotdotnet.com. Just search for ADModify from the homepage and go to the link for workspaces and find ADModify from the listing. The tool does require the .Net framework to run, so make sure that it is installed to use it. I have found hundreds of scenarios and legitimate applications of this utility. It will alter properties for users, groups, MS Exchange contacts and MS Exchange public folders, but probably it's most powerful characteristic is the LDAP filtering on results. I can take any schema attribute of the classes of objects that you can modify and search resulting in only those that match the query string will be displayed for selection from it result set. You then can even sub-select using control and shift for multi select of what will be modified. If you make an error it will create an xml file after every run of the tool that allows you to have transactional roll back the changes just to object modified not those that may already have the attribute set. I cannot think of any exchange administrator that would not find this helpful at some time or another. That goes without saying any Active Directory administrator.