In one of my previous posts, I wrote how to add groups and their members in AD. Some of my friends validated this post as very usable, but they missed the first step: how to add users with all properties to AD. There are many scripts on the net, but I didn’t find a script with enough properties and I decided to write my own one.
I tried to think what the IT persons want and I arrived to those fields:
- Users name
- Users surname
- Users Display name
- Users SAM name
- Company with complete address
- Department where users are working
- Manager
- Office where who is situated
- Home directory
- Mobile phone
- Company phone
- OU where user is created (it is not the best idea to create them in default OU)
In addition I tried to do some more things like users password is always the same and users has always to change this password on first login (be careful with some users, who are working for example only true RDP). I found all this data useful also for future use like for creating a script for Mail signature and similar.
All that you need you will find in this ADUsers script. You will find a script and an Excel file where to add user’s data. You have to fill white cells; yellow cells are formula based and are calculated in base of white ones. The formula that you have to change, as you need, is how the username is created. At the end be careful that you will avoid duplicated data.
Have a good usage and good work!
