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I'm trying to import the new Year 7s into AD and also create a corresponding home folder, I wonder if anyone has got a script that does this - the username format for each student will be "305FLastName". - Where "305" is constant, F= First Letter of First Name and LastName= Last name.
Thanks for your help!
I make use of a nice program called 'AD Infinitum'. You should be able to do that in there, from a CSV file containing all the columns you want.
I'm thinking about different ways of doing it. I have come across ManageEngine - ADManager Plus, anybody know how good it is?
I favour this one
http://www.dovestones.com/products/A...ser_Import.asp
Does all the stuff and even sets the permissions on the home folders if you want it to.
I wrote an autoIT script to do this. I can just feed in a CSV file and the script will do the rest. It will also create home folders, set shares / permissions / ownership etc. It is a little slow though as it basically calls command line utilities.
The only problem is, its rather hard coded to my setup of: Year of entry; Initial; Surname. Eg. 07CLay for me, my domains / servers, etc
If I have time, I may have a play with it today and see if I can sort it out.
Craig
cbt nuggets has a great video on this and some resources.
The Dovestone ones look good and I think I looked at them before but assumed they were american because of the pricing in us $ however they are uk based and can accept cheques.
Ben
Use somebody's script script to import your users and generate the usernames in excel using a few functions.
That's pretty much what I do. I downloaded a VBS script from http://www.computerperformance.co.uk which creates AD users from a spreadsheet and then I created a batch file which creates folders and sets permissions on them for their homedrives. And with Exchange, setting up multiple mailboxes is something like a five click process so that's easy enough.
dsadd to add users here.
Well I just purchased the dovestones software as it looked good at a nice price £154 for the site licence.
Ben
Do you have multiple users doing bulk imports? I just bought a single license.Quote:
Originally Posted by plexer
just create a cvs and then import using a simple script with %username% for the profile path ending ect.. v.simple and its free if you have to time to create the script.
does anybody know of a utility similar to these, but where, when we feed it a csv of users, it can create the users under a different username?
reasoning being, we're migrating to a new setup this summer, and would like to ditch the old student username setup, but dont want to be doing this manually.
cheers :)
I use ADMWIN. PM me if you want my scripts.
http://www.admwin.com/