Windows Server 2008: PowerShell Script adding Active Directory Users

This is how to use a PowerShell Script to add users to an Active Directory Domain Controller. I enter the commands manually and use both PowerShell / Visual Basic scripts. You can create, modify, and view users though these methods.

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[Designandrew]

ok this is great, but why do it using powesehell? why not just do it straight from AD? I'm just trying to understand the use of this?

[Chris Walker]

Yeah, I pretty much felt the same way originally, but this is basic building block stuff. It leads to making an applet or program so that you can do this without opening AD. That's really the only way I can make sense of it. I kinda feel the same way about the command line stuff as well.

[Lynn Dixon]

You guys are the a-typical Windows admins. "Why can't I do this stuff in a GUI?"

Its comments like this that make us *NIX guys laugh.

[Carlos Garcia]

I think the main objective of using the power shell CLI is to be able to manipulate data, access/create Users, OU, Objects, etc from one central location after all isn't that the purpose of a server to manage everything from one central location. Power shell scripting experience also differ the real IT enterprise admins from the others because anyone can use the GUI to perform any of this tasks given a bit of instructions.

[Fnoone Xnoname]

VBS script, where is the password set?

[Dean Montague]

Cutting and pasting isn't really a great learning method.

[Don Kirkham]

As a developer, I am always building virtual domain controllers, so having a PS script to quickly add sample users and groups is very valuable.

[mukte81]

That's mint!

[Raul Romero]

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[Ron Stack]

It helps if you receive a list of 100 users in an Excel document. You can use concatenating and save it as a power shell script... run a single file and 'poof', you have your 100 users in less than a minute!

[ITSystemsAdmin]

NICE PS ROCKS!!!