Bulk user creation / copy within AD

Leon · November 19, 2007, 15:04:22 PM

Right... I got a f**king annoying project call to create 140 users with basic access and RSA tokens and not a chance Im doing it manually. I know for 2000 you had batch cmds like LDIFDE to do mass imports and exports but its never something I really got into...

So question to you guys is anyway I can go about batching this? AD running on 2003 Server SP2

Cheers
Leon

Beaker · November 19, 2007, 15:34:30 PM

Creat an Arcetype user, then right click>Duplicate User, youll just have to put the names in.

Leon · November 19, 2007, 15:40:36 PM

Typing in 139 firstnames, lastnames, username and passwords isnt really speeding up the process.

Beaker · November 19, 2007, 15:47:57 PM

Quote from: DoomsTyping in 139 firstnames, lastnames, username and passwords isnt really speeding up the process.

quicker than creating a fresh profile, typing in all that info, then adding each user to the correct AD groups. Its why most places employ an underpaid chod for data entry.

Im assuming you dont have previous data to work from?

Leon · November 19, 2007, 15:58:15 PM

We have couple of those poor underpaid data entry people but becuase this is project based Ive been given these

The accounts are simple and it would simple to create one with the correct groups and copy, as you say its slightly faster than each on their own but not what im going towards. More or these might be coming in soon as we have just brought out another company and everyone is moving over to our terminal servers

Eggtastico · November 19, 2007, 15:59:05 PM

Quote from: DoomsTyping in 139 firstnames, lastnames, username and passwords isnt really speeding up the process.

well your going to have to do that somehow, or do you already have them details in a CSV file?

Leon · November 19, 2007, 16:24:42 PM

I have them all in text file atm

M3ta7h3ad · November 19, 2007, 18:17:48 PM

There are ways, but dont think you can do it without coding something up.

Just been making something along the same lines in work, and no what Ive done cant help you unfortunately.

However this should: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/59bec076-01fe-4d09-8b4b-296e7fa9c5571033.mspx?mfr=true

Make a batch file and get busy. remember... batch files can read from text files

So give stuff a delimiter and sorted.

DeltaZero · November 19, 2007, 18:27:49 PM

Google csvde, ldifde, dsadd, dsmod and dsrm and see which combination of tools you need to do what you want. Failing that, you could do it all in a VBScript with ADSI (possibly somthing else for the RSA tokens, not sure)

cornet · November 19, 2007, 22:54:16 PM

Quote from: DoomsRight... I got a f**king annoying project call to create 140 users with basic access and RSA tokens and not a chance Im doing it manually. I know for 2000 you had batch cmds like LDIFDE to do mass imports and exports but its never something I really got into...

Time to get into it then :

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/directory/activedirectory/stepbystep/adbulk.mspx

Cypher · November 20, 2007, 00:17:11 AM

God bless SBS servers.

BigSoy · November 20, 2007, 07:37:07 AM

Ah, the life of a techy, when its acceptable to spend 3 days finding a clever solution to something that wouldve probably taken about an hour by hand :mrgreen:

Leon · November 20, 2007, 12:04:41 PM

lol sounds about right but use the justification "It will be helpful to know for next time!"

Cheers for the links. Looks like its a VB thing

man I hate VB...

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Bulk user creation / copy within AD