I was wondering if someone could help me Importing users from a CSV or Excel file to AD based on a Templateuser. However i have no idea how to get the SamAccountNAme and Display name row for row from a CSV file so i don't have to manually change it.
$UserInstance = Get-ADuser -Identity "SaraDavis"
New-ADUser -SAMAccountName "EllenAdams" -Instance $userInstance -DisplayName "EllenAdams"
The CSV file would look something like this. Let's assume this information goes into c:\test\users.csv.
SamAccountName,DisplayName
trevor,Trevor Sullivan
nancy,Nancy Drew
billy,Billy Bob
The, script would look something like this:
# 1. Get a reference to the template user, with all properties
$TemplateUser = Get-ADUser -Identity TemplateUser -Properties *;
# 2. Import the CSV file
$Data = Import-Csv -Path c:\test\users.csv;
# 3. Create a new user for each row / item in the CSV file
foreach ($Item in $Data) {
New-ADUser -Identity $Item.SamAccountName -DisplayName $Item.DisplayName -Parameter1 $TemplateUser.Property1 ... ... ... ...;
}
Related
$users = import-csv "c:\temp\merged11.csv" | ForEach-Object {Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "IBV Europa" }
we have removed "" from CSV file and it's now include only column of all email addresses.
I have tried different syntax's but won't helpful.
If you just have one column with the mail addresses, i would use get-content instead of import-csv and remove the header from the csv file.
merged11.csv Example:
User1#test.com
User2#test.com
User3#test.com
and the Powershell Script could be like this:
$UserEMailList = get-content "c:\temp\merged11.csv"
$UserEMailList | ForEach-Object {
Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "IBV Europa" -Member $_
}
I am attempting to update AD users based on their employeeID number. It is a reliable key field for our organization.
Every user in this case was created with an employeeID attribute. I am using the same csv for the initial creation (New-ADuser) of users (only setting less attributes), as I am the update (Set-ADUser) of users.
Most of this is pretty straightforward and sourced mostly from here. I successfully import my csv, and can print my variables. My resulting message indicates that when I execute my If/Else, that the "User with ID is not found, or more than one is found", both of which aren't true. I believe my issue to be in this line:
$UserID = Get-ADUser employeeID=$EmployeeId
Here is the entirety of the script. What am I doing wrong here?
# Import AD Module
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
# Import CSV into variable $userscsv
$ADUsers = Import-Csv -Path C:\Scripting\CSVs\UpdateADUsers.csv
foreach ($User in $ADUsers)
{
#Retrieve info from CSV
$Title = $User.Title
$Department = $User.department
$Office = $User.Office
$EmployeeId = $User.EmployeeId
$Manager = $User.manager
$Company = $User.Orglevel02
#get user DN
$UserDN = Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter "EmployeeId=$EmployeeId"
If ($UserDN.Count -eq 1)
{
# Use the Set-ADUser cmdlet to assign the new attribute values.
Set-ADUser -Identity $UserDN -Replace #{title=$Title;physicalDeliveryOfficeName=$Office;manager=$Manager}
}
Else {"User with ID $ID either not found, or more than one user found."}
}
$UserDN = Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter "(EmployeeId=*$EmployeeId*)"
Marks answer contains the major correction needed in your filter.
Each of your search criteria at a minimum must be in a set of parenthesis. Like in the example given on ldapexplorer.com
Equality: (attribute=abc) , e.g. (&(objectclass=user)(displayName=Foeckeler)
Your current example has bad syntax since it is missing braces but does not constitute a failure of the cmdlet, so, nothing ($null) is returned. You have a response to this in comments
I initially tried with that syntax, minus the *wildcard. Results still the same, implying User with ID 1234567 either not found, or more than one user found.
What if you hardcode an employeeID in there for testing?
Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter "(EmployeeId=12345)"
If that works then that tells me something is wrong with your source file. Leading or trailing whitespace or perhaps hidden characters? Either way look at the source to be sure and if you have to use .Trim() for testing as you might not initially see the problem.
Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter "(EmployeeId=$($EmployeeID.Trim()))"
I am trying to write a powershell script that will update employeeID attribute in AD for each user
The script needs to update employeeID from my CSV file
Sample CSV:
user,employeeID
user1,1234567
At least now you are trying some code which looks like it should work. Your logic is sound. Are you sure your CSV does not contain and blanks? Some simple statements could rule those out.
Import-CSV "C:\Scripts\Users.csv" | ForEach-Object {
$User = $_.UserName
$ID = $_.EmployeeID
If($user -and $ID){
Set-ADUser $User -employeeID $ID
} Else {
Write-Warning "User or employee number is null. Check source."
}
The If statement would fail if either $user or $id was null. If that is not the case and your CSV does contain data maybe you are having an encoding issue.
I think it depends on how you're finding the user in Active Directory... You could try something like this:
# import the users
$myUsers = Import-Csv csvFile.csv
# loop through each user and update their employeeID property
foreach ($user in $myUsers)
{
# the Set-ADUser cmdlet requires a type of System.Hashtable<>,
# so let's create one
$updateRecord = #{"EmployeeID"=$user.EmployeeID}
# Set the user attribute
Set-ADUser -Identity $user -Replace #updateRecord
}
This might do the trick. Did you guys modify the AD Schema? Keep in mind that "EmployeeID" is assuming you have an EmployeeID Attribute on your Active Directory users.
Please let me know if it helps!
I am trying to write a powershell script that will first import from a CSV file. The CSV file will contain the AD employee number attribute, and also the business unit attribute.
The script needs to find the AD user based on employee number attribute from the CSV, then update the business unit attribute for that user also contained in the CSV file. CSV will look like:
0,1
8022651,Sales & Marketing
So far I have been able to lookup the employee number using this:
$EmployeeNumber='8022651'
get-ADUser -Filter {EmployeeNumber -eq $EmployeeNumber}
I know I can use Import-CSV, but don't know how to piece it all together. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
First we need to get the contents of the csv like so
Import-Csv "path to your csv"
If the business unit is located in the Office field we can update it with set-aduser like so
% { set-aduser $_.0 -Office $_.1 }
The % is short for foreach-object, what this essentially does is grab each user one at a time and change the Office field in AD
if we put $_ into a pipeline it will get the previous information passed through so in this case we're grabbing the "0" and "1" headers from the CSV
Once the users Office has been changed it's nice to see each change so we can use write-host like so
write-host "Changed the office of $($_.0) to $($_.1)
Once again we are using $_.0 and $_.1 to get the headings from Import-Csv but because write-host is based on a string we have to put variables into $( ) for them to display correctly.
Put together it is:
Import-Csv "path to your csv" | % {set-ADUser $_.0 -Office $_.1; write-host "Changed the office of $($_.0) to $($_.1)}
This will
Grab the information from your CSV
->then change info in Active Directory for each person based on the 0 and 1 headers
-->then write on the screen who it changed and what to
I hope this made sense, if not let me know in the comments below.
EDIT:
$csv = Import-Csv "path to your csv"
foreach($usr in $csv) {
get-ADUser -Filter {EmployeeNumber -eq $usr.0} | set-ADUser $_ -Office $usr.1
}
EDIT 2:
$csv = Import-Csv "path to your csv"
foreach($usr in $csv) {
$usrToEdit = $usr.0
$editUsr = Get-ADUser -Filter {EmployeeNumber -eq $usrToEdit}
set-aduser -Identity $editUsr.SamAccountName -Office $usr.1
}
I know this has been done to death but im useing this as a learning experience with powershell. Could someone take a look at my code and tell me where i am going wrong? Noob code warning!
#
# Add User to an AD Group
#
#
# get arguements and quit if they dont exist
$CSV = $args[0]
$GROUP = $args[1]
if (! $CSV) {
Write-Host "Please format this command as 'AddUsersToGroup <csv file> <AD group>'"
Write-Host "CSV file must have the header 'UserName' with AD usernames following"
exit
}
# Read csv file for users and add to AD group
Import-module ActiveDirectory
Import-CSV "$CSV" | % {
# Get existing users from AD group
$ExistingGroup = "Get-ADGroupMember $GROUP | Select-Object SamAccountName"
# create new array removing existing users from the csv
$NewGroup = $ExistingGroup | where {$CSV -notcontains $_}
# add the users to the AD Group from the new array
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity $NewGroup -Member $_.UserName
exit
}
try delete double quote here:
$ExistingGroup = Get-ADGroupMember $GROUP | Select-Object SamAccountName
with quote you're assign a string value to variable not the results of your commands