I have purchased a book titled: "Microsoft Vbscript Step by Step" that has a sample script to import multiple user accounts from a "csv" file. My question is; why does the script create the account, but not populate the account with the other information? For example, the account will get created. But when you go to Active Directory, and right-click the account and view its properties, on the "General" tab, the information there is blank. In the script it has all the information there that should be populated. Why is it not populating? Any help that anyone can give me will be greatly appreciated.
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Start of script
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On Error Resume Next
Dim objFSO,objTS
Dim objDom,objUser
Const FORREADING=1
strFile="newusers.csv"
'format of newusers.csv
'givenname,sn,password,tel
'example:
'Jeff,Hicks,P@sswordJH,555
'Don,Jones,$cr1pting@nsw3r
Set objFSO=CreateObject("Scrip
Set objTS=objFSO.OpenTextFile(
Set objDom=GetObject("LDAP://O
'open text file and process user data on each line
Do while objTS.AtEndofStream<>True
rline=objTS.readline
UserArray=Split(rline,",")
strFirst=UserArray(0)
strLast=UserArray(1)
strUser=strFirst & " " & strLast
strLogon=Left(strFirst,1)&
strUsername=LCASE(Left(str
strPass=UserArray(2)
strPhone=UserArray(3)
strUPN=strUserName & UserArray(4)
'Create user object
Set objUser=objDom.Create ("User","cn="&strUser)
objUser.Put "samAccountName",strUserNa
objUser.SetInfo
'Now that user object is created, let's set some properties
objUser.Put "givenname",strFirst
objUser.Put "sn",strLast
objUser.Put "displayname",strFirst & " " & strLast
objUser.Put "UserPrincipalName",strUPN
objUser.Put "AccountDisabled",FALSE
objUser.Put "TelephoneNumber",strPhone
objUser.SetPassword(strPas
objUser.SetInfo
Loop
objTS.Close
WScript.Quit
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End of script
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Yep, those are part of the same attribute.
We need a couple of Constants at the top, we can use the values directly of course, but this makes it so much easier to understand:
' Active Directory Service User Flags
Const ADS_UF_ACCOUNTDISABLE = &H2
Const ADS_UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD = &H10000
At this point your script already has a connection to the user, so lets take it from there:
'Now that user object is created, let's set some properties
' Get the User Account Control Attribute - Some of these behave in an odd manner
intUAC = objUser.Get("userAccountCo
' Remove Account Disable
intUAC = intUAC And Not ADS_UF_ACCOUNTDISABLE
' Add Don't Expire Password
intUAC = intUAC + ADS_UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD
' Put the User Flags back onto the account
objUser.Put "userAccountControl", intUAC
objUser.SetInfo
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by: Chris-DentPosted on 2007-06-14 at 09:51:20ID: 19285092
I imagine it's because of this one:
objUser.Put "AccountDisabled",FALSE
There's no such attribute so setting it to false will generate an error.
Because of the "On Error Resume Next" at the start you won't see that error and it'll continue on creating accounts. But failing to set the information and the password.
Chris