Re: creating user profiles : automated

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From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 10/05/04


Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 07:57:04 -0700

The most common approach for defining accounts and
their initial group memberships is to write a script, likely
that reads a file with the specifics for each new account.
You may want to visit the Technet Script Center where
there are examples of the different parts of such a script.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/default.mspx
Alternatively you could use the prebuilt ldap based tools
to load from a csv file, or the prebuilt scripts - but as you
perhaps need something that handles group memberships
case by case per user you may be best off with a custom
script.

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:218e01c4aa60$ee2d1210$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> It is pretty simple to create a user and assign him/her
> to a group but how does one make an automated process so
> that many users will be made at once?  if we have a
> couple hundred users it would take a system administrator
> far too long to create these profiles one by one.
>
> any ideas?


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