You can use a VBS script to add the account, set the password, and enable
it. You can even add it to the OU of your choice. You can also set things
like when account expires, address, tile, phone, etc. of the user you are
adding.
Here is some sample code that I pulled from my script. This won't work out
of the box but gives some idea of how to get it going. We use a 40+ comma
delimited file that is loaded each night. We add and delete accounts daily
based on this file. We built error checking and email. We just check our
email each day to view log files and that is about it as far as account
creation goes.
Set adsdomainobj = GetObject("LDAP://ou=test,DC=domainname,DC=com)
Set adsuserobject = adsdomainobj.Create("user", "cn=JoeUser"& ) '
set basic properties
'
adsuserobject.Put "sAMAccountName", username
adsuserobject.Put "name", username
adsuserobject.SetInfo 'save the properties added to make sure account is
added.
'cannot set other properties unless the
account is added.
adsuserobject.GetInfo 'gets the account info so you can set the
following the properties
adsuserobject.AccountDisabled=False
adsuserobject.IsAccountLocked = False
adsuserobject.accountexpirationdate = datetoexpire
adsuserobject.SetInfo 'save the properties added
adsuserobject = user object that is being modified
accountexpirationdate is the AD field that has the value.
datetoexpire = variable for the date to expire the account
The format for datetoexpire = "January 1 2002"
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Diwakar Shetty
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Programmatically adding user account
I used the LDIFDE tool for creating 5000 users on Acive Directory.
However, there are two issues.
1) User accounts are disabled. One needs to enable it by going to
Start->ProgramFiles->Administrative Tools->Active Directory Users and
Computers
2) Passwords cannot be set.
Regards
Diwakar
Elizabeth Farrell wrote:
> Hi Diwakar.....I use the LDIFDE tool to automate account creation on AD.
> Here is my guide:
>
> << BTW, I create about 149000 accounts daily for a test environ. using
this
> method>>
>
> Regards
> E.
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