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Power shell script and Exchange 2007 help, please

Asked by: The_Spaz

We have a very different environment where our login is lastname.first (lastname up to a maximum of seven characters and then the first initial)  but I am not sure how to set this up in a powershell script.  The following is what I have so far and it works but it creates the full lastname.firstname   and not what I need which is the lastname up to a maximum of seven characters.first initial of the firstname.  So if the name is  mr Goodlooking the name standard would goodloo.m  for the UPN .  Can someone tell me if this can be done or not and if so what ti would be.  Thanks!

## Run BulkImport.ps1 c:\temp\importusers.csv
## Import data from csv and store it in variable 'data' 
 
$data = import-csv $args[0] 
 
## Function to convert password into a secure string 
 
function New-SecureString([string] $plainText) 
{
   $secureString = new-object System.Security.SecureString 
 
   foreach($char in $plainText.ToCharArray())
   {
      $secureString.AppendChar($char)
   } 
 
   $secureString
} 
 
foreach ($i in $data)
{ 
 
$ss = new-securestring $i.password
$upn = $i.lastname + "." + $i.firstname + "@" + "bch.local"
 
new-mailbox -Password $ss -Alias $i.alias -LastName $i.lastname -Firstname $i.firstname -Name $i.name -Database $i.database -UserPrincipalName $upn -OrganizationalUnit $i.ou
} 
 
and my sample .csv file
Alias,LastName,FirstName,Name,Password,OU,Database
mgoodlooking,Goodlooking,Mr,Goodlooking Mr,snoopy3@mybch.org,TEMP,Users,External-Medium-F-J

                                  
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Answers

 

by: Chris-DentPosted on 2009-08-19 at 05:43:39ID: 25131927


Hey,

Yep it's possible. Something like this would do it.

Chris

## Run BulkImport.ps1 c:\temp\importusers.csv
## Import data from csv and store it in variable 'data' 
 
$data = import-csv $args[0] 
 
## Function to convert password into a secure string 
 
function New-SecureString([string] $plainText) 
{
   $secureString = new-object Security.SecureString 
   foreach($char in $plainText.ToCharArray()) { $secureString.AppendChar($char) } 
   $secureString
} 
 
foreach ($i in $data)
{ 
   $ss = new-securestring $i.password
 
  # Build the UPN
  $UPN = $i.lastname
  # If the last name length is greater than 7 characters trim off the end
  If ($UPN.Length -gt 7) { $UPN = $UPN.SubString(0, 7) }
  # Concatenate with the first character of the first name and the domain name
  $UPN = "$UPN.$($i.firstname.SubString(0, 1))@bch.local"
 
  new-mailbox -Password $ss -Alias $i.alias -LastName $i.lastname -Firstname $i.firstname `
    -Name $i.name -Database $i.database -UserPrincipalName $upn -OrganizationalUnit $i.ou
} 

                                              
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by: The_SpazPosted on 2009-08-19 at 06:13:04ID: 25132176

Man that was quick. If you can add one more thing than I will be very glad to award the points as I just checked that it does work.  Any idea at the new-mailbox piece on how to add that new user also to the active directory group citrix_staff as i notice when they get created they only belong to Domain Users.  P.s. I have no problem adding and extra column in my .csv script with the exact group(s) name for each user if that helps.  

 

by: Chris-DentPosted on 2009-08-19 at 06:16:01ID: 25132211


Is "citrix_staff " a distribution group (mail enabled)?

If so it should work with this extra command.

If it's not mail enabled it's a tad more complex, so I haven't included it unless you need it :)

Chris

## Run BulkImport.ps1 c:\temp\importusers.csv
## Import data from csv and store it in variable 'data' 
 
$data = import-csv $args[0] 
 
## Function to convert password into a secure string 
 
function New-SecureString([string] $plainText) 
{
   $secureString = new-object Security.SecureString 
   foreach($char in $plainText.ToCharArray()) { $secureString.AppendChar($char) } 
   $secureString
} 
 
foreach ($i in $data)
{ 
   $ss = new-securestring $i.password
 
  # Build the UPN
  $UPN = $i.lastname
  # If the last name length is greater than 7 characters trim off the end
  If ($UPN.Length -gt 7) { $UPN = $UPN.SubString(0, 7) }
  # Concatenate with the first character of the first name and the domain name
  $UPN = "$UPN.$($i.firstname.SubString(0, 1))@bch.local"
 
  new-mailbox -Password $ss -Alias $i.alias -LastName $i.lastname -Firstname $i.firstname `
    -Name $i.name -Database $i.database -UserPrincipalName $upn -OrganizationalUnit $i.ou
 
  Add-DistributionGroupMember "citrix_staff" -member $UPN
} 

                                              
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by: The_SpazPosted on 2009-08-24 at 05:56:44ID: 25167793

Citrix_staff is actually a global security group in AD group that we need to have them added to (like Domain Users).  So, it is not mail enabled.  Hope that thelps.

 

by: Chris-DentPosted on 2009-08-24 at 06:04:50ID: 25167860


It does. This should work, yell if it doesn't.

Chris

## Run BulkImport.ps1 c:\temp\importusers.csv
## Import data from csv and store it in variable 'data' 
 
$data = import-csv $args[0] 
 
## Function to convert password into a secure string 
 
function New-SecureString([string] $plainText) 
{
   $secureString = new-object Security.SecureString 
   foreach($char in $plainText.ToCharArray()) { $secureString.AppendChar($char) } 
   $secureString
} 
 
foreach ($i in $data)
{ 
   $ss = new-securestring $i.password
 
  # Build the UPN
  $UPN = $i.lastname
  # If the last name length is greater than 7 characters trim off the end
  If ($UPN.Length -gt 7) { $UPN = $UPN.SubString(0, 7) }
  # Concatenate with the first character of the first name and the domain name
  $UPN = "$UPN.$($i.firstname.SubString(0, 1))@bch.local"
 
  $NewMailbox = New-Mailbox -Password $ss -Alias $i.alias -LastName $i.lastname `
    -Firstname $i.firstname -Name $i.name -Database $i.database `
    -UserPrincipalName $upn -OrganizationalUnit $i.ou
 
  $Group = [ADSI]"LDAP://$((Get-Group 'Citrix_Staff').DistinguishedName)"
  $Group.Add("LDAP://$($NewMailbox.DistinguishedName)")
} 

                                              
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by: The_SpazPosted on 2009-09-21 at 08:48:59ID: 31617558

Great work.  This works well.  

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