Adding Bulk Users in AD

https://www.google.nl/url?q=http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617195.aspx&sa=U&ei=sdsmUJWPOoOt0QXkuIHoCQ&ved=0CAwQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNGI-UpGp_Kll2O7f9vkYkIqdId7nw

There are a lot of tutorials how much do you know about powershell

I searched a lot and didn't find anything; you can have a look:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27798291/Create-Users-daily-in-Active-Directory-AD.html

Now we use ADConnector:
http://www.itrainlabs.ch/en/adconnector.html
http://www.itrainlabs.ch/en/adconnector/presentation.html
http://www.itrainlabs.ch/en/adconnector/technical-videos.html

Demo:
http://www.itrainlabs.ch/en/adconnector/online-test-drive.html

What format do you have the users details in?

CSV, and its just FirstName,LastName.

Here is what I have, I ripped it off some site, so I didnt write it.  (disclaimer)

$objOU=[ADSI]"LDAP://OU=NewUserDump,OU=CCA Campus,DC=mydomain,DC=local"
$dataSource=import-csv "adduser.csv"
foreach($dataRecord in $datasource) {
$cn=$dataRecord.FirstName + " " + $dataRecord.Lastname
$SAMAccountName=$dataRecord.FirstName + "." + $datarecord.LastName
$givenName=$dataRecord.FirstName
$sn=$dataRecord.LastName
$SAMAccountName=$SAMAccountName.ToLower()
$displayName=$sn + ", " + $givenName
$userPrincipalName=$SAMAccountName + "@mydomain.local"

$objUser=$objOU.Create("user", "CN="+$cn)
$objUser.Put("SAMAccountName",$SAMAccountName)
$objUser.Put("userPrinciplaName",$userPrincipalName)
$objUser.Put("dispalyname",$displayName)
$objUser.Put("givenName",$givenName)
$objUser.Put("sn",$sn)

$objUser.SetInfo()
$objUser.SetPassword("password")
$objUser.psbase.InvokeSet("AccountDisabled",$false)
$objUser.SetInfo()
}


When I run it in powershell, it doesnt like the last 4 lines, in regard to the password.  I removed those lines, the script ran without error, but no user account was created in the specified OU.

I am running the script as Admin in Powershell and have changed the ExecutionPolicy.

You can also use CSVDE -I switch.
This will create users from a standard csv file.   It is part of windows.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732101(v=ws.10).aspx
I find it is a bit more straight forward, but learning PS is not a bad way to import and learn scripting.

We created with CSV, but I think you can choose a format.

You haven't referenced the ou in the create function. You only fill a variable with the ou info..

also its much easier you use the built in function..

new-ADUser

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617253.aspx

There are lots of free tools available - why re-invent the wheal

eg http://ad-bulk-users.software.informer.com/

Creating bulk Active Directory user and group accounts in PowerShell using Server 2008 R2 cmdlet
http://get-spscripts.com/2011/08/creating-bulk-active-directory-user-and.html

Sub-Topics

To create my users in the OU “*****” for the domain “****.local”
Creating groups and assigning members

- Rancy

You can also use batch.
Fire the command dsadd user /? and see what's possible. Try using a for loop on your .csv/textfile.

Thanks for all the input.  I ended up using the ANUC tool that dreik mentioned.  It was good, the CSV part was a bit flaky, so I added them manually using the tool.  It took me 2 hours to add 500 users, so not bad.<br /><br />it doesnt allow you to add group membership, if it had that it would be great.<br /><br />Thanks again.