Importing Year 7s into Active Directory

[networkmanager]

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!

[localzuk]

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.

[plock]

I'm thinking about different ways of doing it. I have come across ManageEngine - ADManager Plus, anybody know how good it is?

[SpuffMonkey]

I favour this one

 

http://www.dovestones.com/products/Active_Directory_User_Import.asp

 

Does all the stuff and even sets the permissions on the home folders if you want it to.

[craiglay]

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

[strawberry]

cbt nuggets has a great video on this and some resources.

[plexer]

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

[ChrisH]

Use somebody's script script to import your users and generate the usernames in excel using a few functions.

[Norphy]

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.

[tosca925]

dsadd to add users here.

[plexer]

Well I just purchased the dovestones software as it looked good at a nice price £154 for the site licence.

 

Ben

[SpuffMonkey]

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.

[harmless]

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.

[Homer]

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

[leon]

I use ADMWIN. PM me if you want my scripts.

 

http://www.admwin.com/

[ICTNUT]

Check out http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=5644

 

I have already added my scripts for doing this.

[SpuffMonkey]

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

 

It'd be easier to manipulate the data in XL or similar while still in CSV format and then create the users