Create AD Users in Bulk with a PowerShell Script

Situatie

Now, let’s make our task a little bit harder and create ten similar Active Directory accounts in bulk, for example, for our company’s IT class, and set a default password (P@ssw0rd) for each of them. To send the default password in a protected state, we must use the ConvertTo-SecureString parameter. Here’s the script to use:

Solutie

$path=”OU=IT,DC=enterprise,DC=com” $username=”ITclassuser” $count=1..10 foreach ($i in $count) { New-AdUser -Name $username$i -Path $path -Enabled $True -ChangePasswordAtLogon $true ` -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString “P@ssw0rd” -AsPlainText -force) -passThru }

Now let’s make our script more flexible by adding the Read-Host parameter, which will ask for the name and number of users:

path="OU=IT,DC=enterprise,DC=com"
$username=Read-Host "Enter name"
$n=Read-Host "Enter Number"
$count=1..$n
foreach ($i in $count)
{ New-AdUser -Name $username$i -Path $path -Enabled $True -ChangePasswordAtLogon $true  `

-AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "P@ssw0rd" -AsPlainText -force) -passThru }

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