Has anyone successfully used the Wisesoft Spreadsheet with exchange 2010?
Looks like Powershell is the official way of doing it. There is plenty of Powershell scripts that point to csv files to create bulk users but nothing complete i.e. sets up mailbox permissions, sets profiles path, group memberships etc.
AD bulk users is quite cheap starting at about £60 but we still have some issues with handling duplicates so we have not committed to buying that yet.
XiaAutomation just seems expensive at £500 so we have not looked at that yet.
We have in the past tried using an old program we used with XP & Exchange 2003 which created legacy exchange mailboxes and then used a power script to convert them but it just seems messy way of doing it.
I may try simply mixture of Powershell scripts, batch file to set up NTFS security on mailboxes and ADModify to do the rest.