Yes! Matt, that would be great!
Thanks VERY much! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rick Kingslan - Microsoft Certified Trainer MCSE+I on Windows NT 4.0 MCSE on Windows 2000 MVP [Windows NT/2000 Server] "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." --- Arthur C. Clarke -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Matt Campitelli Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 5:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Guide to automating account creation in an AD I can send you some demo files that I use in classes if you want. Maybe even a cheat sheet if you're interested. Matt -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Wednesday, 2 January 2002 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Guide to automating account creation in an AD Interesting - can you povide more information on this? I'm a OS guy, not a Word guy and don't really know where to start on this one, short of creating the CSV. Thanks much! Rick Kingslan - Microsoft Certified Trainer MCSE+I on Windows NT 4.0 MCSE on Windows 2000 MVP [Windows NT/2000 Server] "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." --- Arthur C. Clarke -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Matt Campitelli Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 7:00 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/ 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/
