Hi everyone! I'm a sysadmin at a school district and I'm quite new to PowerShell. I've managed to create a script that works for bulk creating student user accounts, but I've hit a snag when it comes to placing these accounts in the right Organizational Units (OUs). Our Active Directory structure has folders for each grade level within the Student OUs of each school. My initial thought was to pull the school name and grade level from a CSV file and then use a lengthy switch statement to sort the accounts, but I'm hoping to find a more efficient solution. Any ideas you can share would be greatly appreciated!
4 Answers
If your CSV includes all the necessary info, you can directly create the user accounts in the correct OU using the `-Path` parameter in the `New-ADUser` command. This way, there's no need to move accounts around after they're created.
Instead of moving accounts post-creation, consider creating them straight into the correct OUs. I’ve done something similar in my projects where I've set up scripts to streamline this process. Let me know if you're interested in seeing examples!
You can dynamically build the OU path based on the grade and school names directly from your CSV. Here’s a snippet to help you out:
```powershell
Import-Csv .students.csv | ForEach-Object {
$OU = "OU=$($_.Grade),OU=Students,OU=$($_.School),DC=yourdomain,DC=com"
# Now you can create the user with -Path $OU
}
```
Just ensure your CSV has the required fields and that should do the trick!
Have you thought about restructuring your CSV? It could help with automating the placement in the correct OU based on the existing data. I can share some tips on how to set that up if you'd like.
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