Importing Mac addresses as users into Active Directory

Casey Weaver
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I'm trying to use the import-CSV | New-ADUser setup to import a csv of about 2000 people into a group in AD. I'm trying to come up with what to name the headers of the csv for this to work to attain the following:

First Name
Last Name
display name
password
set the "Password Never Expires" attribute
set the "User cannot change Password" attribute
Enable the account for immediate use
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"Batchelor", Developer and EE Topic Advisor
Top Expert 2015
Commented:
How you name your CSV headers is up to you, and has absolutely no effect but as how the properties of the dynamic objects created from the CSV are named. For easier access I recommend not to use spaces and special characters.

BUT, if you name the CSV headers exactly as the parameters to New-ADUser (Name, GivenName, Display etc., see help of New-ADUser), you are able to just pipe the CSV into the cmdlet:
import-csv ThisIsMyFile.csv | New-ADUser

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and that is probably what you are asking for. If you name the headers differently, you will need to process the CSV:
import-csv ThisIsMyFile.csv | % { New-ADUser -DisplayName $_.DisplayName -GivenName $_.LastName <# aso. #> }

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Subash SundharanIT Infrastructure Architect
Commented:
If you are using import-CSV test.csv | New-ADUser, then the AD accounts created will not be enabled by default, it's because New-ADUser requires a Secure String for the Password and the password from csv file will be plain text.

You may refer the following article for example..
http://blogs.technet.com/b/samdrey/archive/2011/09/26/bulk-populate-an-ad-using-a-csv-file-and-new-aduser-including-passwords.aspx
Casey WeaverManaged Services Windows Engineer III

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The top solution was exactly what I needed. We also made renditions for our newer server in Powershell so we used that as well. Thanks guys!

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