Hi,I need to write an agent to rename users, this include certificate changing process also.
There are 10000 users to be rename/re-certified.
Can you please help me giving some steps how can I perform this.
We cannot install any third party tool.
I need to do this through script only.
Please help.
Thanks in Advanced
Subject: Answer
Using Lotuscript you can add adminp request to do the rename/recerts
Here is a url with more info
Subject: Thanks
Thanks Barry,I will check with the link given by you.
Please do help me if I get stuck anywhere.
Thanks a lot once again
Subject: Changing Rertificate
Hi Barry,Just one more thing to ask,
For changing certificate we can do it also using Lotus Script. Do you know any link or if you can provide steps for changing certificate of user.
It will be great help to me.
Thanks in Advance
Subject: Always a good idea to read the documents you’ve been sent links to already
If you don’t read what you’ve already been sent, and you ask questions for things that are explicitly called out with examples, then you can potentially come across as someone that is a bit of a lazy idiot. Obviously, that isn’t the case here right and you just missed it the first time you read it.
Subject: my thoughts
Carl and Karl
Unlike the two of you I am new to responding to posts on these boards. What I am noticing more and more are posts from people who want full solutions to issues they have (without even explaining the issue and what they tried) and not wanting us to respond with urls so they can learn how to solve issues going forward. Seems we are at a point that companies are hiring consultants with no Notes experience that the only clue they do have is to post for complete answers on there boards.
Barry
Subject: It’s not really anything new
I don’t think people realize that apart from hosting this forum IBM pretty much do nothing apart from a couple of individuals out of 400+ thousand.
The thing that irritates me is that many of the questions asked here, when you research the individuals who posted them are IBMers, who IBM is hiring out at some crazy ass rate as expert consultants.
I would love to say this is a new phenomenon of people posting and expecting full answers, but it’s often been like that, and it’s always been a struggle educating people on how best to ask questions.
Typically it’s because someone got laid off, and someone else who knows nothing was given the task of taking over. The difference now, is that many of the people that used to help others have moved on, either their jobs were given to someone at a lower wage, or they moved on to a product that a company markets.
Subject: I agree
As Carl says, this is nothing new. But it seems to correlate with the increased use of off-shore companies for development.
To be blunt, this is what happens:
A US/European company want to save money. They fire their in-house Notes developers or stop using local consultants, both with many years of experience. Instead they hire programmers in India or some other traditional low-cost country.
Those developers have no or very little experience with Notes/Domino, but take any jobs theyt get, thinking that they will “learn on the job”.
Just look at the names of the people asking questions, especielly the ones asking very rudimentary questions and where it is obvious that they know nothing or very little about Notes/Domino. In many cases you can deduct from what coutry they are, based on the names and/or the grammar…
Yes, I know they can create accounts using fake (western sounding) names, but the grammar often gives them away anyway…
I am sure most Americans have seen the Discovery card commercial with “Peggy”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8L2cI8brzQ 
When these off-shore “programmers” get in over their head, and don’t have years of experience to fall back on, they come here and ask questions. Or try, they often don’t use the correct terminology (a dead dive.-away that they are brand new to the product) or even ask questions in a smart way (see the CRISPY initiative in these forums, or How To Ask Questions The Smart Way for good suggestions).
Often you can even tell that the person asking the question is not even a programmer, even if he/she is trying to be one.
Here are two links that I think explains it very well:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmers-program.html
The short version is that many “programmers” can’t program, despite having degrees in Computer Science, as the quotes below (from the links above) also tell:
“Despite the enormous changes which have taken place since electronic computing was invented in the 1950s, some things remain stubbornly the same. In particular, most people can’t learn to program: between 30% and 60% of every university computer science department’s intake fail the first programming course.”
"A surprisingly large fraction of applicants, even those with masters’ degrees and PhDs in computer science, fail during interviews when asked to carry out basic programming tasks. For example, I’ve personally interviewed graduates who can’t answer “Write a loop that counts from 1 to 10” or “What’s the number after F in hexadecimal?”
Less trivially, I’ve interviewed many candidates who can’t use recursion to solve a real problem. These are basic skills; anyone who lacks them probably hasn’t done much programming.
Speaking on behalf of software engineers who have to interview prospective new hires, I can safely say that we’re tired of talking to candidates who can’t program their way out of a paper bag. If you can successfully write a loop that goes from 1 to 10 in every language on your resume, can do simple arithmetic without a calculator, and can use recursion to solve a real problem, you’re already ahead of the pack!"
“Between Reginald, Dan, and Imran, I’m starting to get a little worried. I’m more than willing to cut freshly minted software developers slack at the beginning of their career. Everybody has to start somewhere. But I am disturbed and appalled that any so-called programmer would apply for a job without being able to write the simplest of programs. That’s a slap in the face to anyone who writes software for a living.”
I think we see a lot of those people here in the forums…
Subject: By the way
if you ever want to do some interesting analysis (I did it a while back), a fun thing to chart is the time of day questions are posted, and see how that has got earlier and earlier as the people posting questions has moved from the west to the east. A depressing thing to chart is the drop in participation.
I think using a name is a bad way of judging where someone is based, your name would indicate a Nordic country, but I know you’re Texas. I don’t really mind if someone is from India, Europe, US or wherever. I like to try an treat all questions equally, if someone has put effort into their question and explained what they have tried, what they are trying to achieve etc. I’ll probably be less short with them. If someone is just lazy and hasn’t even looked in help, searched google etc, then I have no issue with not helping them, or belittling them 
Subject: Agree
I agree about more and more companies outsourcing and the consultants are learning on the job.
Google is great to find answers but if you don’t know anything how will you know what to search for? Would love to see some of these consultants take scripts that they find without understanding what they do and run them.
In my work life I always try to help someone as a learning experince and just not give them the whole solution.