Bulk user creation in AD

[BouncingSoul]

It's time to create the new user accounts for our incoming students. I've never had to do more then a handful at a time in the past. This time, it's over 100. I've heard you can use a script to do it for you. I have no idea how to do that and all the things I've read online are way to advanced for me. My boss is toying with the notion of getting this:

Active Directory User Import, Import Tools

But no one here knows anything about it. So what do you recommend? Bite the bullet and do it manually or buy this program? Or is scripting really not that difficult? Thoughts?

 

[fitz]

You can script out pretty much anything in AD (including creating users, home directories, etc). You can use CSVDE to do a straight import to create new users if you know how to create the import file - which really isn't too hard to do.. LDIFDE can be used as well if you need to modify existing accounts, but the file format it uses is a little more work (at least for me) to create. (for examples on CSVDE - http://www.gfi.com/blog/csvde-means-simplify-active-directory-administration-part-3/)

You can also use VBScript connecting through ADSI to script out the creation of the user accounts.. (Step-by-Step Guide to Bulk Import and Export to Active Directory)

 

[ZeroHour]

Some similar discussions have been had over at my site EduGeek.net - The Front Page with specifically an education slant.
Active Directory - Single and Bulk User creation and FREE!!
Tool to bulk create users / create single user easily?
AD Bulk User Creation Utility with extras?

Hope you find something to assist.

 

[BouncingSoul]

Hating this already. So much so that I think it'll be easier to do it manually.

Right now despite being told to run it as ldifde –i -f NEWUSERS.ldf -s SERVERNAME it errors out at the -i saying its a bad argument. Odd considering that is the syntax it says to you.

 

[BouncingSoul]

Active User Manager is the greatest thing ever!

REPS!

 

[ZeroHour]

Active User Manager is the greatest thing ever!

REPS!

Np glad it helped 🙂
Out of interest what area of education are you in? uni/school?

 

[BouncingSoul]

K-12 School district. I'm one of the only one's here and I figured I'd have a nice easy summer. One word ... Nope!