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Creating Test AD users with Powershell- Improved!

Remember the PoSH add users to AD script? Well, it got picked up by “The Man” himself, Dmitry Sotnikov of PowerGUI fame and he rolled it into a one-liner: 1..500 | ForEach-Object { New-QADUser -ParentContainer ps64.local/test -Name “testuser$_“ -SamAccountName “testuser$_“ -UserPrincipalName “testuser...

Posted to Austin Osuide's Windows Server and Random Rants Blog (Weblog) by Austin on 10-25-2007
Creating Test Users in AD - Another way...

My good friend and AD Mentor, Jorge de Almeida Pinto pointed me at a much simpler way to do this. Not with PoSH, admittedly, so not as exciting to me right now but it gets the job done and uses Joe Richard 's ADMOD tool: For groups: (replace # with number, replace $$ with US, GS, LS, UD, GD, LD)...

Posted to Austin Osuide's Windows Server and Random Rants Blog (Weblog) by Austin on 10-22-2007
Creating Test AD users with Powershell

Sometime last week on the Microsoft AD newsgroup, someone asked for a script to populate test users in Active Directory using a source text file with he user names and passwords. Of course, several people suggested VB scripts to do the task and Richard Mueller gave a pointer to an excellent script on...

Posted to Austin Osuide's Windows Server and Random Rants Blog (Weblog) by Austin on 10-22-2007
Powershell: Real Glue!

Last Friday Quest software made GA the RC of the ActiveRoles ADcmdlets. This, to me, is another significant milestone in the evolution of Microsoft's new Command line language, Powershell. The versatility continues to amaze me and there is true community effort in extending it! An Extensible command...

Posted to Austin Osuide's Windows Server and Random Rants Blog (Weblog) by Austin on 10-16-2007
More on Euro DEC Part Deux..

One of my favorite sessions was given by Jorge de Almeida Pinto, a well known DS MVP, whose blog is one of the most interesting reads on AD on the web. His talk was on Read Only Domain Controllers (RODCs); what they are and the challenges in managing them. I'll try and give a précis of his session...

Posted to Austin Osuide's Windows Server and Random Rants Blog (Weblog) by Austin on 10-08-2007
Forest Functional Level upgrade notes

Make sure forest is healthy wrt replication and all DC event logs are clean. Review the following Articles: How to raise Domain and Forest functional levels in Windows Server 2003 Domain and Forest functionality Enabling Advanced Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Features What Are Active Directory...

Posted to Austin Osuide's Windows Server and Random Rants Blog (Weblog) by Austin on 09-16-2007
Scripting Group Policy settings!

I spent this weekend playing with a beta copy of SDM Softwares' GPExpert Scripting Toolkit kindly advanced to a colleague of mine and I by Darren Mar Ellia, the CTO of SDMS. Darren is one of the better known GPO gurus there are out there and when he sniffed on the ActiveDir.org newsgroup during one...

Posted to Austin Osuide's Windows Server and Random Rants Blog (Weblog) by Austin on 07-22-2007
Quest Software wins Microsoft Global ISV Partner of the year

Quest Software, at the Microsoft Partner conference held in Denver ,won the Global ISV Partner of the Year award for their adoption and use of Powershell. Quests Active Directory cmdlets and stuff from Dmitry Sotnikovs ' PowerGUI team are some of the Powershell apps coming out of the software house...

Posted to Austin Osuide's Windows Server and Random Rants Blog (Weblog) by Austin on 07-15-2007

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