Import users to AD

joshredmayne2 · 2015-07-01T06:40:12.000Z

Description

import users from CSV to AD

Source Code

CSV should be set out like:
FirstName	LastName	UserName	Fullname	PrincipleName
Alex	        Chung	         Alexc	        Alex Chung	Alex.chung@COMPANY.co.uk

Powershell command to import the users:

$Users = Import-Csv -Path C:\Users\Documents\usernames.csv 
$OU = 'ou=USERS,dc=DOMAIN,dc=co,dc=uk'

foreach ($User in $Users)
{ 
    New-ADUser -Name $User.Fullname -Path $OU -GivenName $User.FirstName -Surname $User.LastName -SamAccountName $User.UserName -DisplayName $User.Fullname -UserPrincipalName $User.PrincipleName -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "Password1" -AsPlainText -Force)
    }

jimlong3 · 2019-09-25T12:44:16.000Z

How do you load usernames.csv? Is it possible to pull every Active User from one AD with all their Properties & then “New-ADUser” them all directly into the new AD, preserving all Properties & Attributes?