How to automate creating AD users with PowerShell and Excel

PowerShell Help
1

Generally I create new users by copying a Template user I created in AD and adding it to the correct OU, but I want to know how to automate new users with excel or basic PowerShell script that will copy the Template User from AD

How can this be done

2

There are literally thousands of examples for such a task out there in the internet. Some good points to start searching are:

https://www.powershellgallery.com/

and

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/

3

Here is an article for you to start with.

4

new-aduser is the powershell command to build a new user.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/addsadministration/new-aduser?view=win10-ps

you can use a csv file for input, so you should also read up on import-csv

or just a simple google search…

as always, don’t run someone else’s code if you don’t understand what its doing

5

Here’s a very basic example:

Users.csv:

name,path
js,"OU=People,DC=powershell,DC=org"
js2,"OU=People,DC=powershell,DC=org"

users.ps1:

import-csv users.csv | new-aduser -whatif

What if: Performing the operation "New" on target "CN=js,OU=People,DC=powershell,DC=org".
What if: Performing the operation "New" on target "CN=js2,OU=People,DC=powershell,DC=org".