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Alnedru
Alnedru

Reputation: 2655

Importing user to AD in OU using powershell

I have a piece of powershell script that loops thru the name of users and adds them to Active Directory into an OU (organizationalUnit), but I have a problme : by some reason I can't add users to that organizationalUnit. I get an error on create user, which says that object is empty, so in other words I think my connection string doenst seems to work , I tried everything and dont know how to solve.

Just a notice when I do the same but for cn it does add users but for OU not ...

Here is the piece of script:

$Connection = "LDAP://ou=SopraUsers,dc=sopragroup,dc=lan"

        # Get A Unique Password

        [string]$Password = Generate-Password
        $username=$Firstname.substring(0,1).toLower() + $Surname.toLower().replace(" ", "")
        # Create User in AD

        $container =[ADSI] $Connection
        $User = $container.Create("User", "cn="+$username)
        $User.Put("sAMAccountName", $username)
        $User.Put("givenName", $Firstname)
        $User.Put("sn", $Surname)
        $User.Put("mail", "")
        $User.Put("displayName", $Firstname + " "+$Surname)
        $User.SetInfo()


        $User.PsBase.Invoke("SetPassword", $Password)
        $User.PsBase.InvokeSet("AccountDisabled", $false)
        $User.pwdLastSet = 0
        $User.SetInfo()

I think the problem is in $Connection = "LDAP://ou=SopraUsers,dc=sopragroup,dc=lan" because if I do $Connection = "LDAP://cn=Users,dc=sopragroup,dc=lan"

Then i do get people added but only for Users.

Here is how my AD looks like, as you can see I want ppl get added to the lowest OU.

Thanks in advance for the help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1364

Answers (1)

JPBlanc
JPBlanc

Reputation: 72620

Just put this line in comment :

$User.Put("mail", "")

If you don't want to put an email address just remove this line ; on my server it gives a bad attribute syntax.

As far as the connexion string is concern, can you try this connexion string ?

"LDAP://sopragroup.lan/ou=SopraUsers,dc=sopragroup,dc=lan"

You can create a connexion like this :

$Connection  = [adsi] "LDAP://sopragroup.lan/ou=SopraUsers,dc=sopragroup,dc=lan"

or, if you want to authenticate : 

$Connection  New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry ("LDAP://ServerIP/ou=SopraUsers,dc=sopragroup,dc=lan","[email protected]","pwd")

Upvotes: 1

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