Powershell script to create user names from a text file - HELP!

Hello Experts,
I need help creating a script in PowerShell to create users in AD from a csv file. The file contains users in this format:

COMPANY,SAM-Account Name, Password, Path (OU to be placed in), First Name, Initial, Last Name, Display Name, Security Group, CannotChangePassword, PasswordNeverExpires, email address, user-principle-name

So as a sample user whos name is Joe Blow and works at EE, this is how the format is in the csv:

EE,jblow,TempPass1,"OU=EE,OU=Customers,DC=Portal,DC=local",Joe,J,Blow, Joe Blow,PORTAL.local\Customers,FALSE,TRUE,joe.blow@expertsexchange.com,jblow@portal.local

The users I am importing from the CSV file can be exported in another format or rearranged if it helps, thanks in advance!

PowershellWindows Server 2012Active Directory

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Sir Learnalot

8/22/2022 - Mon

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Sir Learnalot

12/3/2014

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I tried this and ran into tons of trouble :P I do appreciate the effort though as I was able to use your code with some slight modifications :) However, now that I got the syntax properly, I am running into another error...

$data = get-content 'C:\Users\portalservice\Desktop\Test1.csv'
$Password = (Read-Host -AsSecureString "AccountPassword")
foreach ($values in $data) {
  $item = $values.split(':')
  $COMPANY=$item[0]
  $SAM = $item[1]
  $Pword = $item[2]
  $OUPath=$item[3]
  $FirstName = $item[4]
  $Initial=$item[5]
  $DisplayName=$item[6]
  $SecurityGroup=$item[7]
  $LastName=$item[8]
  $emailaddress=$item[9]
  $upn=$item[10]
  New-ADUser -Name $DisplayName -samaccountname $SAM -AccountPassword $Password -company $COMPANY -DisplayName $DisplayName -EmailAddress $emailaddress -givenname $FirstName -Surname $LastName -initials $Initial -PasswordNeverExpires 1 -userprincipalname $upn -path $OUPath -CannotChangePassword 0 -confirm
Add-adgroupmember $SecurityGroup $SAM
}

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Rajitha Chimmani

12/3/2014

I guess you need to give some time after creating the user before you add that user to a group

Try the command, start-sleep -s 30 between new-aduser and add-adgroupmember

Also, you may consider specifying the -domaincontroller parameter in New-ADUser command.

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Sir Learnalot

12/5/2014

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@Rajitha I tried removing the add to group entirely so thats not the problem at the moment. Would adding the DC matter if I am running the script directly off the server anyways?

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Rajitha Chimmani

12/5/2014

Sometimes..yes..it does help. but, if you have a single DC then it does not matter.

Sir Learnalot

12/22/2014

ASKER

did not end up solving the issue, will recreate a question later