User Creation

[kai91]

Hi All,

Moving away from CC4 this summer and just wondering if anyone has a tool to automate the creation of users, ie create the home folder etc?

Thanks

Kai

[bodminman]

Morning Kai,

 

have a butchers at this:

 

Creating bulk users in Active directory

[sted]

ive just got an excel spreasheet that generates usernames etc just copy out data from the last wookbook to notepad save as a batch and run

[Joanne]

I use AD Infinitum. You can get it on a trial and it works a dream. Buy it if you like it, then you can use ALL the features

 

Here is the link http://www.newfawm.com/adi2.htm

 

Just thinking... as for editing home drives, I usually select all the users in AD, right click, properties, profile, home drive, then put the old \\server\home_drives\%username% jobby in there. Creates all the folders with the usernames etcs.

Edited June 20, 2013 by Joanne

[BJG]

We use Dovestones after a mention on this forum years ago.

 

http://www.dovestones.com/

Edited June 20, 2013 by BJG

[imunro01]

Have a look at JavelinaSoftware's ADUsers

[tmcd35]

This guy has a number of very good and very useful AD tools, including bulk user creation...

 

WiseSoft - Resources for IT Professionals

[Boredguy]

We created a VB script that reads an export from SIMS and automatically creates any new students for us.

Just updated it to powershell since we going to want it to do some work on the Office365 accounts as well.

[2097]

This guy has a number of very good and very useful AD tools, including bulk user creation...

 

WiseSoft - Resources for IT Professionals

 

I always used to use VB scripts which was a pain in the arse . Then i found wisesofts Excel User creation thing . what a Great free program !

[plexer]

Dovestones here as well version 4 looks good and it can run to a schedule as well so as long as you create an output file it will automatically run and create your users.

 

Ben

[Davit2005]

We use Dovestones after a mention on this forum years ago.

 

Active Directory Tools - Dovestones Software

 

Another vote for Dovestones here, creates home folder and can even create exchange accounts too.

 

As Plexer said, the scheduling is brill addition in V4

Edited June 20, 2013 by Davit2005

[tmcd35]

I always used to use VB scripts which was a pain in the arse .

 

I actually used to write a program in Turbo Pascal every year until I discovered Wisesoft's spreadsheet!

[XiJ]

I wrote a Kix Script at the time.

 

The idea at the time was the school IT Co-ord just typed in a list of names once a year and pressed add users. As it happens its normally us who do it anyway.

[Iain.Faulkner]

I used to use a product called Salamander at my last school, great product, but not cheap.

 

In the summer we're having a product called Umra installed which apparently is similar, but again comes with a cost.

[synaesthesia]

We find the wisesoft stuff troublesome and use AD Infinitum now.

[ADMaster]

Similar here boredguy,

I used to use a vbs but converted to powershell a couple years ago.

A scheduled export of student data from our SIS + scheduled run of said script = AD / email accounts automagically created 1 day after enrollment.

[Meldrew]

Similar here boredguy,

I used to use a vbs but converted to powershell a couple years ago.

A scheduled export of student data from our SIS + scheduled run of said script = AD / email accounts automagically created 1 day after enrollment.

We do similar here, only prob we have is that staff expect user account to be ready within minutes of the student being admitted in SIMS (Grr ). I'll update it at some point to check semi regularly for new students and trigger a creation script. We have gone one futher step and purchased a Dymo label printer so the users account details gets automatically printed onto a label. Student walks in the office, we just give them a label - really easy.

 

Meldrew

[synaesthesia]

Just been playing with that dovestones one. Starts very promisingly, looks decent, but within 5 minutes realised it's coded by geeks with no regard to the end user. It looks simpler than AD Infinitum but in fact far more complicated to use, unnecessarily. Very usable if you really can be bothered to find out the relevant distinguished names etc but that really is pointless. At least with ADI you can save presets for each type of user. Sort of a shame really as it'll pull from SQL databases, so could be used to pull from SIMS. Slightest bit of tinkering would make it very purchaseworthy. Edited July 5, 2013 by synaesthesia

[Boredguy]

We do similar here, only prob we have is that staff expect user account to be ready within minutes of the student being admitted in SIMS (Grr ).

Meldrew

We export the student list twice a day from SIMS, 7am and 12pm, so user accounts can be created automatically once they are enrolled.

Now we have moved to Office 365, their e-mail account gets created around upto 3 hours after their user account by the time the basic account is created, then our own PS script runs to set licenses and mailbox policies

[Jonah]

We do similar to some previous posters, using a powershell script that checks an exported report from SIMS and then checks against AD. If it finds any new users then accounts are created, dropped in the right year group/OU, mailboxes set up, and an e-mail sent to us and the IT teaching department with details. The scheduled task runs hourly so any accounts are created pretty quickly once on SIMS.

[Spence_101]

We use Active User Manager, and have done for the last couple of years at least (since leaving RM and going Vanilla). Once set up it's really good.. automates shares etc.