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Active Directory Update

Hi guys,
I am not very familiar with Active Directory, but ours needs updating badly, and I was wondering about the process of updating it. Our HR department can easily provide data in the form of a spreadsheet (Excel). What would be the best way to update Active Directory using these spreadsheets? Thanks.

rafael_acc

Update Active Directory?????

What is that you are talking about? Give me some example? What's the content of those worksheets? What do you want to update? Personal data of your employees?

Cheers.

rafael_acc

Anyway, Active Directory can (not so easy) be scripted! Therefore you do can automate most tasks using AD Scripts.
So ... please, be more specific about what r u trying to achieve here!

Sorry for the dbl post.

Cheers.

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I believe the HR departmen got a list of employee in excel format, he don't want to key them one by one(it is horror to him if he needs to key in 200 users in the active directory ). So, he was wondering if he can import the excel into active directory.

It doesn't take a genius to understand what he is trying to achieve,

isaacr25

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All I need to know is if its possible to update Active Directory (employee data: name, department, numbers, new employees etc.) using spreadsheets that I can get from Human Resources. I know that it is probably not a direct import/export or something like that, but I need to know if its indirectly possible. Thanks.

Isaac

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isaacr25

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Thanks,
That's all I wanted to know... whether or not it was technically possible. Thanks.

Isaac