What is ADAM A Microsoft product, Active Directory Application Mode ADAM is an LDAPcompliant directory service. ADAM has a simple install and runs as. The Power. Shell script I use to create Active Directory users. In some very, very small circles, people ask me for advice using Power. Shell. I know, it makes NO sense. Regardless, I like the attention and it pushes me to be a better person. In todays example of my pathetic Power. Shell skills Ill share the script I use to create Active Directory accounts in my Share. Point test environments. I build a lot of test environments, so its handy to be able to crank out lots of users quickly. Ive used a variety of Power. Shell solutions, but this is the first one that hasnt sucked so much that Im afraid to share it. Active Directory User Creation tool 1. One task that every systems administrator has to go through at some point is the creation of new user accounts. AzureAD-1.png' alt='Active Directory User Import Script' title='Active Directory User Import Script' />It actually does a couple of cool things. Before I share this amazing code with you, let me tell you about a few of its finer features. It checks to see if theres a problem creating the user, and if there is, reports it. This is handy for two reasons. First, the user youre running the script as may not have permission to create users. With the error checking in this script you get a message saying Access Denied so you know its a permissions error. Also, this allows it to gracefully skip users that already exist. This is great because as you need to add new users to your environment you can just add them at the end of the existing users. It can handle accounts that have managers and ones that dont. Being Share. Point admins we all get to experience the User Profile Service. That gives us the fancy employee hierarchy thing, which needs each accounts Manager field to be populated. Lepide Active Directory Self Service. The average cost of a helpdesk call today is around 30 20 and IT is under increasing scrutiny to justify their contribution. Toggle navigation Active Directory Security Active Directory Enterprise Security, Methods to Secure Active Directory. Tutorial 802. 1X Authentication via WiFi Active Directory Network Policy Server Cisco WLAN Group Policy. A PowerShell module for Active Directory was released with PowerShell 2. Server 2008 R2. This module includes several cmdle. Just for checking out which users has the inheritance switched of, u can use this ImportModule ActiveDirectory user GetADUSer filter properties Configuring Active Directory Import for a SharePoint 2013 User Profile Service Application using PowerShell. An easy way to batch export import users in Active Directory using built in tools and the free Active User Manager app. Take a look at the accompanying. One of things this script gives us is the ability to put our service accounts and our user accounts in the same users. In previous version of this I had two CSV files and changed the script to not try to add the Manager attribute for service accounts and bosses. In this version I dont need to do that. It can add user pictures to Active Directory. Regardless of whether the user already exists or not, the script will look in the local directory to see if a file with the name user. If its there, the script adds it to the user. Since the creation part gracefully skips existing users, you can gradually drop JPGs into this folder and run the script over and over to add users pictures. This part doesnt have any of the Try Catch error checking yet, so if you dont have permission edit AD users, you might get some angry red text here. Pretty cool, huh Are you really excited to get your hands on this super cool scriptI thought you would be. Here it is 1 Script to create Active Directory accounts 2 v. Todd Klindt 4 http www. Add the Active Directory bits and not complain if theyre already there 7 Import Module Active. Directory Error. Action Silently. Continue. Convert. To Secure. Stringpassword. As. Plain. Text force. Get domain DNS suffix 1. Get ADDomain. dnsroot. Import the file with the users. You can change the filename to reflect your file 1. Import Csv. users. In case its a service account or a boss 2. New ADUser Sam. Account. Name user. Sam. Account. Name Name user. First. Name user. Last. Name. Display. Name user. First. Name user. Last. Name Given. Name user. First. Name Surname user. Last. Name. 2. 5 Email. Address user. Sam. Account. Name dnsroot User. Principal. Name user. Sam. Account. Name dnsroot. Title user. title Enabled true Change. Password. At. Logon false Password. Never. Expires true. Account. Password defpassword Pass. Thru. 2. 8. System. Object. 3. Write OutputCould not create user user. Sam. Account. Name, 3. New ADUser Sam. Account. Name user. Sam. Account. Name Name user. First. Name user. Last. Name. Display. Name user. First. Name user. Last. Name Given. Name user. First. Name Surname user. Last. Name. 3. 9 Email. Driving Under A Suspended License Ca. Address user. Sam. Account. Name dnsroot User. Principal. Name user. Sam. Account. Name dnsroot. Title user. title manager user. Enabled true Change. Password. At. Logon false Password. Never. Expires true. Account. Password defpassword Pass. Thru. 4. 3. System. Object. 4. Write OutputCould not create user user. Sam. Account. Name, 4. Put picture part here. Sam. Account. Name. Write Outputfilename 5. Write OutputFound picture for user. Sam. Account. Name 5. Get Contentfilename Encoding byte. Set ADUser user. Sam. Account. Name Replace thumbnail. Photophoto. 5. If youd like to download the code. You can grab it here. You can grab a sample CSV file here. As always, be very, very afraid of any Power. Shell you download from the Internet. Especially mine While this script might very work as is in your test environment, you should really just consider it something to reference when you write your own script. This script might destroy your Active Directory, format your server, and replace your fresh brewed coffee with Folgers Crystals. You have been warned. Let me know what you think. Be kind. I cry easily. Short. URL http www. Posh. Make. Users.