Yep - seen that one from the Exchange side of things, but wanted a more portable solution.
Matt -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gasper, Rick Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2002 1:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Guide to automating account creation in an AD Also try cdolive.com. Siegfried Weber has somewhere on the site has some code to automate building accounts using Excel. I use that code to create all my accounts at the beginning of the semester. Rick Gasper Manager of Network Services King's College Wilkes-Barre PA 18711 Phone: 570-208-5845 Fax: 570-208-5989 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Matt Campitelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Guide to automating account creation in an AD One big hint for this is to create the data file using Excel is a classic CSV layout to take advantage of formulas to ease the data entry issues. Then simply mail-merge into Word to transform it into LDIF format. Matt -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Farrell Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 6:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Guide to automating account creation in an AD <snip> 1. Create a template text file which is going to give AD. all the config. info it needs to create the account. It should look something like this: dn: CN=**Mary Wood*,CN=*Users*,DC=**Rome**,DC=**com** changetype: add cn: **Mary Wood** objectClass: *user* samAccountName: **Mary** givenName: **Mary** sn: **Wood* userPrincipalName: **Mary** mail: **[EMAIL PROTECTED]** mailNickname: **Mary** *= AD environment variables **=User-dependant variables I recommend a max. number of users to add @ any one time to be 276 (280+ by this method has made the Exchange server freezes for up to 30 seconds) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
