topic username migration in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/username-migration/m-p/296478#M249608 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi, </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>we want to rename all users (the userName property of type cm<img id="smileytongue" class="emoticon emoticon-smileytongue" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.png" alt="Smiley Tongue" title="Smiley Tongue" />erson) of an alfresco system due to an active directory change (complete new active directory). </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What is the best approach to do that? API-driven or directly in database?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>We have identified following fields where the username has to be updated: </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- site memberships </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- ownerships of documents and folder </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- group memberships </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- user specific acls </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- favorites </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- datalist assignees </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- comments on documents </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- version history </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- audit trail </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- workflow history </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- workflow tasks </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- custom property fields in custom types </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Are there any other things we should take care of? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I see that there is a post of Axel Faust (</SPAN><A href="https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/general/non-technical-alfresco-discussion/usernames-migration-05162011-1130" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/general/non-technical-alfresco-discussion/usernames-migration-05162011-1130</A><SPAN>) which also contains a database approach. Is there anybody who has already done this in a project and can point me to some challenges?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks, </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Jens Goldhammer </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Alfresco Certified Engineer</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:37:00 GMT jego 2013-10-11T07:37:00Z username migration https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/username-migration/m-p/296478#M249608 Hi, we want to rename all users (the userName property of type cm<IMG id="smileytongue" class="emoticon emoticon-smileytongue" src="https://migration33.stage.lithium.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.png" alt="Smiley Tongue" title="Smiley Tongue" />erson) of an alfresco system due to an active directory change (complete new active directory). What is the best approach to do that? API-driven or directly in database?We have identified following fields where the username has to be Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:37:00 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/username-migration/m-p/296478#M249608 jego 2013-10-11T07:37:00Z Re: username migration https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/username-migration/m-p/296479#M249609 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>There are folks who have done it.&nbsp;&nbsp; AFAIK Alfresco support has some scripts that may help for some instances.&nbsp; But in general changing the userid is not supported.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:00:09 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/username-migration/m-p/296479#M249609 mrogers 2013-10-11T11:00:09Z