Windows Servers - Copy user

You can do a copy of an existing user from within the GUI of active directory users and computers.

As far as the DS command line tools go there is no single command to let you create another user as a copy of an existing user.

You could probably script this out using multiple DS commands but to answer your question there is nothing like DScopy.

Do you mean copy a user from one Active Directory to another?  Otherwise if it's the same AD just go to ADUC, right-click and copy..

Thanks the answers,

Yes I supposed that maybe something can be existing as DScopy.. But so in this way not existing.

In AD doing this right-click copy of course actually, but thought that for multiple users copy could be something like this

Please check an article about DSADD on my blog at
http://kpytko.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/microsoft-ds-tools-part-4/

and try to follow this way. In case of any further questions, do not hesitate to ask. We will help you

Regards,
Krzysztof

OK, you can do that this way. Create a text file with user's data, i.e.

iSiek;Krzysztof;Pytko;
user2;Some;Users;

save this on C-Drive as c:\newusers.txt

and use this syntax:

for /f "tokens=1-3 delims=;" %i in (c:\users.txt) do dsadd user "cn=%i,ou=OULocation,dc=domain,dc=local" -samid %i -fn %j -ln %k -display "%j %k" -upn %i@domain.local -pwd P@ssw0rd -memberof "cn=group1,ou=GroupLocation,dc=domain,dc=local" "cn=group2,ou=GroupLocation,dc=domain,dc=local" -mustchpwd yes -disabled no

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where "cn=group1,ou=GroupLocation,dc=domain,dc=local" is a reference group of existing user (from his memberOF tab). To simply get DN of that group, type in command-line

dsquery group -name "Group1"

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and use the output :D

Krzysztof

Krzysztof thanks, do you mean that this method assumes that all of the group membership is downloaded for the copy from user and also listed in the command?

Because the issue is that these sample users have a lot of group membership, so if those should be listed in the command, then that one does not sound too easy.

As I can imagine maybe so before anything such command should be

dsget user "CN=Joe Doe,OU=Users,OU=MM,DC=it,DC=corp,DC=local" -memberof > c:\users\myuser\desktop\groups.txt

and after having all group membership, continue with your way?

thanks,
Zsolt

Ok, now I know what did you mean. Yes, we can achieve that using DSTools but we need also file with groups. Give me short time and I will give you a syntax, now I'm on mobile and it is difficult to write ;)

Krzysztof

Krzysztof thanks just again, all of my point is yours :) It is really not so important that you dealt with it even in the evening.

Yes absolutely I thought like this so firstly identifying all groups, basically we are just preparing to the future with this when would get mass user creation requests. So will try to test these steps first

thanks,
Zsolt

Hi Zsolt,

you're welcome :)

Yes, this is good idea to prepare a process for that and test it first to avoid any issues in the future.

Krzysztof