PS: Adding Users To Your Homelab AD

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Description:

This is how you would go about adding AD Users to a test environment.

To Resolve:

  1. Copy and paste the following to your domain controller and run it.
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For ($I = 0; $I -Lt $Numberofusers; $I++)
        {
            $Data = Invoke-Webrequest -Uri "https://randomuser.me/api/"
            $User = $Data.Content | Convertfrom-Json
            $Email = $User.Results.Email
            $FirstName = $User.Results.Name.First
            $LastName = $User.Results.Name.Last
            $Together = ($FirstName + "." + $LastName)  
            $Upn = $Together + "@" + $Fqdn
            New-Aduser -Name $Together `
                -Accountpassword $Pass `
                -Changepasswordatlogon $False `
                -Postalcode $User.Results.Location.PostCode `
                -Country "US" `
                -State $User.Results.Location.State `
                -City $User.Results.Location.City `
                -Streetaddress $User.Results.Location.Street `
                -Givenname $FirstName `
                -Surname $LastName `
                -Displayname "$FirstName $LastName" `
                -Emailaddress $Email `
                -Enabled $True `
                -Userprincipalname $Upn `
                -Path $Ou
            Write-Output "User account created: $Together in $Ou " 
        }
    }
  1. You would have to fill in the required variables and of course have to be able to populate using the internet (randomuser.me’s website API’s), so this method may not be so clean. In that case, I have another script that creates 50 users statically.
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$1 = @{ First = "Todd"; Last = "Parker" }
        $2 = @{ First = "Shawn"; Last = "Allen" }
        $3 = @{ First = "Harold"; Last = "Thomas" }
        $4 = @{ First = "Patrick"; Last = "Evans" }
        $5 = @{ First = "Tammy"; Last = "Torres" }
        $6 = @{ First = "Kevin"; Last = "Richardson" }
        $7 = @{ First = "Ruth"; Last = "Henderson" }
        $8 = @{ First = "Michelle"; Last = "Gonzales" }
        $9 = @{ First = "Bonnie"; Last = "Martin" }
        $10 = @{ First = "Harry"; Last = "Hernandez" }
        $11 = @{ First = "James"; Last = "Price" }
        $12 = @{ First = "Philip"; Last = "Stewart" }
        $13 = @{ First = "Louis"; Last = "Morris" }
        $14 = @{ First = "Eric"; Last = "Bell" }
        $15 = @{ First = "Jesse"; Last = "Jones" }
        $16 = @{ First = "Matthew"; Last = "Alexander" }
        $17 = @{ First = "Andrew"; Last = "Ward" }
        $18 = @{ First = "Donna"; Last = "Reed" }
        $19 = @{ First = "Brandon"; Last = "Martinez" }
        $20 = @{ First = "Russell"; Last = "Green" }
        $21 = @{ First = "Patricia"; Last = "Wood" }
        $22 = @{ First = "Richard"; Last = "Cook" }
        $23 = @{ First = "Henry"; Last = "Howard" }
        $24 = @{ First = "Janice"; Last = "Wilson" }
        $25 = @{ First = "Cynthia"; Last = "Williams" }
        $26 = @{ First = "Denise"; Last = "Clark" }
        $27 = @{ First = "John"; Last = "Phillips" }
        $28 = @{ First = "Willie"; Last = "Lopez" }
        $29 = @{ First = "Janet"; Last = "Edwards" }
        $30 = @{ First = "Ernest"; Last = "Barnes" }
        $31 = @{ First = "Dennis"; Last = "Young" }
        $32 = @{ First = "Sandra"; Last = "Patterson" }
        $33 = @{ First = "Carolyn"; Last = "Gray" }
        $34 = @{ First = "Elizabeth"; Last = "Cox" }
        $35 = @{ First = "Paul"; Last = "Johnson" }
        $36 = @{ First = "Randy"; Last = "Flores" }
        $37 = @{ First = "Julia"; Last = "Lee" }
        $38 = @{ First = "Lawrence"; Last = "Campbell" }
        $39 = @{ First = "Timothy"; Last = "Lewis" }
        $40 = @{ First = "Teresa"; Last = "Cooper" }
        $41 = @{ First = "Alice"; Last = "Taylor" }
        $42 = @{ First = "Douglas"; Last = "Jenkins" }
        $43 = @{ First = "Mildred"; Last = "Powell" }
        $44 = @{ First = "Mark"; Last = "Kelly" }
        $45 = @{ First = "Louise"; Last = "Watson" }
        $46 = @{ First = "Stephen"; Last = "Nelson" }
        $47 = @{ First = "Evelyn"; Last = "James" }
        $48 = @{ First = "Edward"; Last = "Rogers" }
        $49 = @{ First = "Shirley"; Last = "Bailey" }
        $50 = @{ First = "Maria"; Last = "Baker" }

        $Array = @($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10, $11, $12, $13, $14, $15, $16, $17, $18, $19, $20, $21, $22, $23, $24, $25, `
                $26, $27, $28, $29, $30, $31, $32, $33, $34, $35, $36, $37, $38, $39, $40, $41, $42, $43, $44, $45, $46, $47, $48, $49, $50)

        Foreach ($Number In $Array)
        {
            $FirstName = $Number.First.Tostring()
            $LastName = $Number.Last.Tostring()
            $Together = ($FirstName + "." + $LastName)  
            $Upn = $Together + "@" + $Fqdn
            New-Aduser -Name $Together `
                -Accountpassword $Pass `
                -Changepasswordatlogon $False `
                -Givenname $FirstName `
                -Surname $LastName `
                -Displayname "$FirstName $LastName" `
                -Emailaddress $Upn `
                -Enabled $True `
                -Userprincipalname $Upn `
                -Path $Ou
            Write-Output "AD User Created: $Together"  
        }
  1. Source is maintained under gwActiveDirectory

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