Need .CMD script module

Using SharePoint.
It doesn't like '.' in Usernames such as; David.H.Lipman and converts them to '_' so in
SharePoint MySites the user name is; David_H_Lipman

Need a .CMD script snippet that will take %USERNAME% and convert it to a string with '_'
replacing all occurances of '.' within the Active Directory Username.

 

This is what I used on a similar occasion:
SET MyUsername=%@REPLACE[.,_,%USERNAME]
with 4NT as command processor; I believe 4NT now succeeded by "Take
Command", which includes the free TCC/LE.

I guess it's possible to do it with CMD, but less concisely and clearly.

 

From: "Michael Bednarek" <>

| On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:00:19 -0400, "David H. Lipman" wrote in
| microsoft.public.windows.server.scripting:

| This is what I used on a similar occasion:
| SET MyUsername=%@REPLACE[.,_,%USERNAME]
| with 4NT as command processor; I believe 4NT now succeeded by "Take
| Command", which includes the free TCC/LE.

| I guess it's possible to do it with CMD, but less concisely and clearly.


4NT ? Hmmm, that's in the JP Software family of interpreters such as 4DOS which was
OEM'd to Norton and was called NDOS ?

It was great but... It is not a viable option on our Active Directory Domain.

The CMD.EXE, .CMD, batch processor is what I may only be able to use :-(

The objective would be such as I can eventually do...

net use Z: \\myspad.oursite.com@SSL\DavWWWRoot\Firstname_Lastname

or

net use Z: \\myspad.oursite.com@SSL\DavWWWRoot\Firstname_MI_Lastname

Where aall the Domain Accounts use the naming convention; Firstname.MI.Lastname or
Firstname.MI.Lastname

Personally I'd much rather use the latest version of KiXtart. I have already written, and
tested, a KiXtart script. However our central IS group is in a time warp and is using
KiXtart v3.60 that is (believe it or not) 11 years old! I have to write a letter of
justification of upgrading the KiXtart interpreter on the Login Server to the latest
version and can only "hope" they will do it. If that fails, I need a fall back position
which would be using the .CMD batch interpreter of Vista.

 

Your loss. I couldn't do my job without it.

Maybe Microsoft's PowerShell can do it, too.

This is a bit more complicated than the original brief description; I
suppose you only want to replace the full stops after the last back
slash. This would do that:
SET Target=\\myspad.oursite.com@SSL\DavWWWRoot\Firstname.MI.Lastname
Net Use Z: %@LEFT[%@INDEX[%Target,\,-1],%Target]%@REPLACE[.,_,%@RIGHT[-%@INDEX[%Target,\,-1],%Target]]

Commiserations.

 

It's actually pretty straight forward in CMD:

SET SHAREPOINTNAME=%USERNAME:.=_%

Should work in XP and later Windows versions, possibly in Win2k but I
don't have one handy to test.

 

From: "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <>






| It's actually pretty straight forward in CMD:

| SET SHAREPOINTNAME=%USERNAME:.=_%

| Should work in XP and later Windows versions, possibly in Win2k but I
| don't have one handy to test.

That is awesome and very eloquent - Danke !

 

From: "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <>






| It's actually pretty straight forward in CMD:

| SET SHAREPOINTNAME=%USERNAME:.=_%


Man that works well..

SHAREPOINTNAME=david_h_lipman

USERNAME=david.h.lipman

net use Z: \\myspad.oursite.com@SSL\DavWWWRoot\%SHAREPOINTNAME%

 

Glad I could help. It's not often the experts have left low-hanging
fruit like this for me to pluck when I wander through a group (but
I'll take it when it happens! (-; )

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Zaphod

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