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Im have a stupid day so please help me out and then point and laugh

 

My powershell script below running from my work station logged on as admin and get the follwing error

 

 

import-module ac*

$CSV = Import-CSV "C:\bg12.csv"
$csv | foreach-object {New-ADUser -SamAccountName $_.UserName -UserPrincipalName $_.UserName -Name ($_.Surname + ", " + $_.Forename) -DisplayName ($_.Surname + ", " + $_.Forename) -Surname $_.Surname -GivenName $_.ForeName -Path "ou=12 Users,ou=students,dc=schoolname,dc=campus,dc=council" -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText $_.Password -Force) -Enabled $true }

$CSV | foreach-object {Set-ADUser -identity $_.samaccountname -replace @{mail=$_.email}}

 

stupid error

 

New-ADUser : Directory object not found

At line:1 char:34

+ $csv | foreach-object {New-ADUser <<<< -SamAccountName $_.UserName -UserPrincipalName $_.UserName -Name ($_.Su

+ ", " + $_.Forename) -DisplayName ($_.Surname + ", " + $_.Forename) -Surname $_.Surname -GivenName $_.ForeName -

ou=12 users,ou=students,dc=schoolname,dc=campus,dc=council" -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainT

.Password -Force) -Enabled $true }

+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (CN=KIRK \, BRIA...pus,dc=stockton:String) [New-ADUser], ADIdentity

undException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Directory object not found,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.NewADUser

Posted

I don't have my Stuff[tm] to quickly reference, but offhand if the LDAP path is correct (Path) then it's could well be the Name it doesn't like. One of those properties, probably Name, gets used for the AD user object CN and there's a comma in it which might lead to some code failing to make sense of an object path like:

 

CN=Bloggs,Fred,OU=12 Users,OU=Students,DC=....

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