iterate over csv files and create contacts with attributes - powershell

Question

I currently have the below script that will create a contact with certain attributes I require.
New-ADObject -name SGTContacttest5 -Type Contact -path "OU=SGTestOU,OU=Contacts,DC=DC,DC=Company,DC=local" -OtherAttributes #{
'department'="America";
'givenName'="SG";
'sn'="Test";
'displayname'="SG Test";
'title'="Job Title";
'telephoneNumber'="020";
'mobile'="075";
'mail'="SGTest888#example.com";
'physicalDeliveryOfficeName'="Office Name";
'company'="Company Name";
'proxyAddresses'="smtp:SGTest888#example.com";
'targetaddress'="smtp:SGTest888#example.com"
}
This works perfectly but now I am required to input about 100 of these contacts from a CSV file.
I get that at the top I would put:
$users = Import-Csv -Path C:\temp\users.csv
Then I would then use this somehow:
foreach ($user in $users) {
My CSV starts the same as my code the columns are shown as below:
First
Surname
Full Name
Job Title
Office Number
Mobile Number
E-mail
Location

Answer 1

Well its a fairly open ended question, but $user in this example is a simple place holder variable, so could be anything, $i or $temp, it represents one interation of the parent, in this case $users.
This will be a good start to see what your given back:
$users = import-csv -Path C:\temp\users.csv
foreach ($user in $users)
{
$user
}
use:
foreach ($user in $users)
{
$user | get-member
}
to see what you have to work with.
Then you can access properties of the $user like so:
foreach ($user in $users)
{
New-ADObject -name SGTContacttest5 -Type Contact -path "OU=SGTestOU,OU=Contacts,DC=DC,DC=Company,DC=local" -OtherAttributes #{
'department' = $user.department
'Surname' = $user.Surname
}
}

Answer 2

You can access the variables like $user.Job within the foreach loop. Notice that you should omit the quotes. Here an example with one property, you should be able to do the rest yourself:
$users = Import-Csv -Path C:\temp\users.csv
foreach ($user in $users)
{
New-ADObject -name SGTContacttest5 -Type Contact -path "OU=SGTestOU,OU=Contacts,DC=DC,DC=Company,DC=local" -OtherAttributes #{
'department'=$user.Job;
# ....
}
}