Try ADTEST from MSFT. Along with creating an arbitrarily large AD population, it can also generate authentication and query traffic so you can load test DCs.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4814fe3f-92ce-4 871-b8a4-99f98b3f4338&DisplayLang=en -gil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mylo Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 4:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Request for Test AD Poplulation Data That's true.. used it once for generating 25,000 users... if I remember right it'll even do mailboxes (if you can wait)... it's called AD Populator or something :-) Regards, Mylo Peter Johnson wrote: >If you download the eval of NetIQ DRA there is a tool in there that will >generate users for you. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf B. >Simon-Weidner >Sent: 04 January 2006 15:18 >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Request for Test AD Poplulation Data > >Hi Mark, > >What I've done once: took the northwind DBs and extracted names and >addresses to create sample users for me. > >Unfortunately don't know where it is anymore, but that's the approach >I'd take b/c Northwind contains general sample data, addresses, many >locations (I created a OU-Structure out of these), and if you need more >you can also take the list of firstnames and lastnames and create more >sample users. > >Gruesse - Sincerely, > >Ulf B. Simon-Weidner > > MVP-Book "Windows XP - Die Expertentipps": http://tinyurl.com/44zcz > Weblog: http://msmvps.org/UlfBSimonWeidner > Website: http://www.windowsserverfaq.org > Profile: >http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=35E388DE-4885-4308-B489-F2F121 4 >C811 >D > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris >Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:03 PM >To: ActiveDir.org >Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Request for Test AD Poplulation Data > >I utilise VBScript too, but I wanted user data with a little more >substance. > >500 names in an ldf file is a lot more use to me than a vbs file which >creates user 1, 2, 3 etc etc > >Mark > >-----Original Message----- >From: Tomasz Onyszko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:49:22 >To:[email protected] >Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Request for Test AD Poplulation Data > >Rick Kingslan wrote: > > >>Tomasz, I think that Mark is looking to populate his metabase with >>data other than User 1, User 2, User 3, etc. with simple or blank >> >> >attributes. > > >>So, he's looking for stuff like Homer Simpson, with all of the user >>data, then Marge, etc. >> >> > >So stuill I don't think he will find such .. I use vbscript to populate >my AD with test data. > >-- >Tomasz Onyszko >http://www.w2k.pl >List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx >List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx >List archive: >http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > >List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx >List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx >List archive: >http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/g/ > >List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx >List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx >List archive: >http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ >List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx >List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx >List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
