Powershell is ideal for bulk operations, e.g. creating lots of users in active directory.
Say we have a .csv file that looks like this:
loginname;firstname;middlename;lastname;fullname;function;password f.deboer;f;de;boer;Boer, de, Frank;teacher;mypass$78 r.deboer;r;de;boer;Boer, de, Ronald;teacher;123pass60 m.manager;m;;manager;Manager, Mike;manager;superpassw0rd
You might want to specify some global variables first.
$import_file="d:\import\importfile.csv"
Now let’s create a simple function to read the file.
function readcsvfile()
{
$UserDetails=Import-Csv -delimiter ";" $import_file
foreach($UD in $UserDetails)
{
$loginname=$UD.loginname
$firstname=$UD.firstname
$middlename=$UD.middlename
$lastname=$UD.lastname
$fullname=$UD.fullname
$function=$UD.function
$password=$UD.password
echo "$username"
echo "$password"
# or something else you want to do with tis information
}
}