Re: bulk adding users

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From: Jerold Schulman (Jerry_at_jsiinc.com)
Date: 02/22/05


Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:32:09 -0500

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:27:03 -0800, jeroen <jeroen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>hello,
>
>i'm pretty new to windows 2003 server, so please, bear with me.
>i have to make a bunch of users(500, and all are devided in 7 groups). i
>don't want to do this one by one. because there is this command line :
>LDIFDE (and CSV??). that's where i got stuck.
>i couldn't find anything helpfull about writing that file, or how to use it
>with windows 2003 command line. so i was wondering if someone could help me
>with that.
>
>if you were wondering, these are the specified user accounts :
>
>group name Account name
>group 1 2000-2020
>group 2 3000-3250
>group 3 4000-4100
>group 4 7000-7010
>group 5 5000-5010
>group 6 6000-6100
>group 7 1000-1010
>
>
>any help would be greatly appriciated,
>jeroen

The active directory command-line tools, tip 6820 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com, are built into Windows Server 2003.

See DSADD GROUP

Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com



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