need help with active directory

[juan mendez]

HI, I WORK AT PALMETTO MIDDLE SCHOOL AS A TECH. WE HAVE
ABOUT 1700 STUDENT THAT WE NEED TO ADD TO A NEW STUDENT OU
IN THWE ACTIVE DIRECTORY, IS THERE ANY OTHER WAY THAT WE
CAN DO THIS OTHER THAN ONE AT A TIME? BY HAND!

MAYBE FROM A CD FROM OUR DATA BASE MAYBE!! PLEASE HELP.

THANK YOU SO MUSH.

JUAN.

 

[Dave Shaw [MVP]]

Try the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/user/scrug49.mspx

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[Tomasz Onyszko]

HI, I WORK AT PALMETTO MIDDLE SCHOOL AS A TECH. WE HAVE
ABOUT 1700 STUDENT THAT WE NEED TO ADD TO A NEW STUDENT OU
IN THWE ACTIVE DIRECTORY, IS THERE ANY OTHER WAY THAT WE
CAN DO THIS OTHER THAN ONE AT A TIME? BY HAND!

MAYBE FROM A CD FROM OUR DATA BASE MAYBE!! PLEASE HELP.

THANK YOU SO MUSH.

yes, simple script with ADSI will do this work for You perfectly


You can use adsimatic and then modyfiy this script to read users data
from text file or excel spreedsheet
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/tools/admatic.mspx

This scripts example can be usefull to You:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/user/scrug55.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/user/scrug158.mspx

and more scripts here
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/user/default.mspx
and here
http://www.rallenhome.com/books/adcookbook/code.html


Of course You can user tools like ldifde to import users into AD
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/Q237/6/77.ASP&NoWebContent=1