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October 17, 2001 03:17 PM

Adding Users in Bulk

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Don Jones
Windows IT Pro
InstantDoc ID #22537
Use scripting to manipulate your NT domain
Administrators encounter this scenario all the time: You show up on Monday morning, and the human resources (HR) department has a dozen new user accounts for you to set up. This setup doesn't include just accounts, either, but the new users' home directories, dial-in permissions, and more. Instead of spending the morning checking on your Microsoft Exchange Server or catching up on the latest news on the Web, you're stuck entering new-user information from a spreadsheet.

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how do you make this work in a windows 2003 active directory tree

rick patsula 8/5/2003 1:07:33 PM

I would be really interested in how you would add a step to name the users logon script.


Jonathan Lackman 2/17/2003 8:41:58 AM

How about setting permissions on the user directories? Your script leaves everyone with full control over all home directories.
(There are various methods, from using WMI to shelling out to CACLS.)

richard2/21/2002 2:39:59 AM

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