there are a lot of provisioning and sync-apps that can do
this for you in a very automated fashion - search for "user provisioning" and
you'll get lots of hits on google
alternatively, you can leverage the new DS cmdline-tools
from 2003 (DSADD, DSMOD etc.) and/or a couple of scripts that can accomplish
this task for you. A good start is Robbie Allen's AD Cookbook and the
related scripts: http://www.rallenhome.com/books/adcookbook/code.html
Most of it can also be accomplished by importing correctly
formatted LDIFDE or CSVDE input files (both native tools for Win2k and newer
versions).
/Guido
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nathan Henderson
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] Batch Account Creation and Removal
Anyone have any
great tips for batch creation and removal of accounts? We want to be able
to batch create accounts for our students based off either a database or even
text file and create their user account, e-mail (in a separate message store),
and add them to the correct OUs and groups.
Is there anything
native that could accomplish this or is the best option a third-party
app?
-Nate
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Nathan Henderson
Network Engineer
Northwest University
ph: 425.889.5358
fax:
425.827.2807
