AD Password Generation Help

[Bud180]

Hi All,

 

Wondering if someone has come across this before or been asked by their school. One of the schools i look after want to be able to give students individual passwords and have them recorded in a spreadsheet or similar. Are there any software applications or scripts that can apply passwords from a spreadsheet to users in AD? Or will generate random passwords in english and apply to the users.

 

EG 'whale12'

 

I know it cannot be done with CSVDE and i already have a VBS to bulk change users passwords, but applies the same one for every user.

 

Can anyone help??

 

Buddy

[adhutton]

I think that Wisesoft Bulk AD Users can do that - WiseSoft - Resources for IT Professionals

 

http://www.wisesoft.co.uk/software/bulkadusers/default.aspx

 

It does lots of other things and we use it all the time, its great - and FREE!

 

Andrew

[jmak]

I think that Wisesoft Bulk AD Users can do that - WiseSoft - Resources for IT Professionals

!

 

Nice tip. Looks really useful

[SpuffMonkey]

I know the school say they want the passwords in a spreadsheet - we did that and it didn't take long before some dopey teacher allowed the kids to get a copy and a lot of misery and hard work ensued!

[cogrady84]

Hi All,

 

Wondering if someone has come across this before or been asked by their school. One of the schools i look after want to be able to give students individual passwords and have them recorded in a spreadsheet or similar. Are there any software applications or scripts that can apply passwords from a spreadsheet to users in AD? Or will generate random passwords in english and apply to the users.

 

EG 'whale12'

 

I know it cannot be done with CSVDE and i already have a VBS to bulk change users passwords, but applies the same one for every user.

 

Can anyone help??

 

Buddy

 

I use DSADD and DSMOD for batch scripting user creation and modification, this would allow you to generate a csv list of users with preferred unique passwords and then export to a batch file and execute?

 

sample DSMOD:

dsmod user "cn=Joe Bloggs, ou=13, ou=Students, ou=All Users, dc=domain, dc=local" -fax 1234

 

sample DSADD:

dsadd user "cn=Joe Bloggs, ou=13, ou=Students, ou=All Users, dc=domain, dc=local" -samid 13bloggsj -fn Joe -ln Bloggs -display "Joe Bloggs" -upn [email protected] -email [email protected] -fax 1234 -pwd changeme

 

I have all of this in an excel sheet using concatenate functions paired with data extracted from my MIS to generate the required info.

Edited June 25, 2013 by cogrady84