Code in this video_How to Create Bulk User Account in Active Directory with CSV file

Code in this video_How to Create Bulk User Account in Active Directory with CSV file

📌 OU Structure

📌 CSV Template file

FirstName

LastName

OU

Username

Password

Email

Department

JobTitle

Telephone

StreetAddress

City

ZipCode

State

Country

Company

HR

1

OU=HR,OU=HG,DC=hg,DC=local

hr1

Password

[email protected]

HR

Accounting

1

OU=Accouting,OU=HG,DC=hg,DC=local

acc1

Password

[email protected]

Accounting

Purchasing

1

OU=Purchasing,OU=HG,DC=hg,DC=local

pur1

Password

[email protected]

Purchasing

Production

1

OU=Production,OU=HG,DC=hg,DC=local

prod1

Password

[email protected]

Production

📌 Script

# Import active directory module for running AD cmdlets
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
  
# Store the data from MultiUser.csv in the $ADUsers variable
$ADUsers = Import-Csv full_path_of_file_MultiUser.csv 

# Define UPN, replace hg.local = Your-UPN
$UPN = "hg.local"

# Loop through each row containing user details in the CSV file
foreach ($User in $ADUsers) {

    #Read user data from each field in each row and assign the data to a variable as below
    $username = $User.username
    $password = $User.password
    $firstname = $User.firstname
    $lastname = $User.lastname
    $initials = $User.initials
    $OU = $User.ou
    $email = $User.email
    $streetaddress = $User.streetaddress
    $city = $User.city
    $zipcode = $User.zipcode
    $state = $User.state
    $country = $User.country
    $telephone = $User.telephone
    $jobtitle = $User.jobtitle
    $company = $User.company
    $department = $User.department

    # Check to see if the user already exists in AD
    if (Get-ADUser -F { SamAccountName -eq $username }) {
        
        # If user does exist, give a warning
        Write-Warning "A user account with username $username already exists in Active Directory."
    }
    else {

        # User does not exist then proceed to create the new user account
        # Account will be created in the OU provided by the $OU variable read from the CSV file
        New-ADUser `
            -SamAccountName $username `
            -UserPrincipalName "$username@$UPN" `
            -Name "$firstname $lastname" `
            -GivenName $firstname `
            -Surname $lastname `
            -Initials $initials `
            -Enabled $True `
            -DisplayName "$lastname, $firstname" `
            -Path $OU `
            -City $city `
            -PostalCode $zipcode `
            -Country $country `
            -Company $company `
            -State $state `
            -StreetAddress $streetaddress `
            -OfficePhone $telephone `
            -EmailAddress $email `
            -Title $jobtitle `
            -Department $department `
            -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-secureString $password -AsPlainText -Force) -ChangePasswordAtLogon $True

        # If user is created, show message.
        Write-Host "The user account $username is created." -ForegroundColor Cyan
    }
}

Read-Host -Prompt "Press Enter to exit"