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Yeah, I have asked this question a lot through the years.
Generally the answer I have heard back is that MS wants to make sure there is a
market for third party tools, etc. I generally hear that and go ok,
whatever. On the positive side there is generally some API exposed to allow
you to do what it is you want to do so you can script or write your own tools to
do it. I think a lot of the really interesting tools come out of MS when someone
who actually needs something for a specific project or something sits down and
writes it and it becomes popular internally and starts slipping out through the
cracks of MCS and PSS.
DSADD would have been a logical place for it if you look at
the overall suite of tools from MS, but I would bet that they had the same
thought I had when I set up admod to do adds in that it was an AD tool, not a
specific user creation tool. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Stanford Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 2:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] User account and home directory management Thanks for all your input on this - I will check these
out. I must say I'm surprised they are not easy to come by, or that MS
have not implemented something like it themselves - as for many institutions it
must be a basic requirement.
Dan. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tyson Leslie Sent: 08 June 2005 00:31 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] User account and home directory management It looks like they've changed things since I used it
last, but there was a tool from ADMWin (http://www.admwin.com/default.htm)
that would do exactly what you're looking for. I believe the one that will
do what you want is now called SetupBatcher. It's pretty straight
forward, you enter the list of users (it can be imported from file), enter user
info (name, location, username, passwords, descriptions, etc.), enter groups,
mailbox info, etc, and specify home directories, including the server to create
the directories, shares, and set permissions on.
It's definitely changed since I used it last (over
three years ago), but it looks like everything is still there. The place I
used it at last was a school board, with over 200 schools. We used to
build the scripts and send them out to the schools. They just had to
supply the student info and a server name. We had scripts to create
everything for September, and remove everything in June, and they worked
very well.
HTH,
Tyson. From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Dan
Stanford Hi to all on the
list. Forgive me if this subject has been
covered, as I am new to the list. I manage a school network, and one of
the issues I face is that an AD user account, the user profile and the user's
home directory share are inextricably linked. I need to be able to create users
and shares in on go, so that the account is set up, the share and
profile created, and permissions set, and the details entered into the AD
object. Does anyone know of any software or scripts that would accomplish
this? I would ideally like to be able to do it for individual users or in
bulk. Thanks in
advance, Dan
Stanford.
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