Create AD User using Powershell Script

Create new Active Directory User using Powershell Script

   1. Copy the below Powershell script and paste in Notepad file.
   2. Change the Name, SamAccountName and DisplayName values into your own user name
   3. Change the Parent OU path with your own OU’s DN
   4. SaveAs the Notepad file with the extension .ps1 like Create-ADUser.ps1

Click to download Powershell script as file Download Create-ADUser.ps1

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
New-ADUser `
 -Name "TestUser" `
 -Path  "OU=TestOU,DC=TestDomain,DC=Local" `
 -SamAccountName  "TestUser" `
 -DisplayName "Test User" `
 -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "MyPassword123" -AsPlainText -Force) `
 -ChangePasswordAtLogon $true  `
 -Enabled $true
Add-ADGroupMember "Domain Admins" "TestUser";

   5. Now run the Create-ADUser.ps1 file in Powershell to create new Active Directory user using following command

PS C:Scripts> .Create-ADUser.ps1

Note: I have placed script file in the location C:Scripts, if you placed in any other location, you can navigate to that path using CD path command (like cd “C:Downloads“).

Create Bulk AD Users from CSV file using Powershell Script

   1. Consider the CSV file NewUsers.csv which contains set of new ad users to create with the attributes Name, samAccountName and ParentOU.

Note: The value of ParentOU should be enclosed with double quote (“). like “OU=TestOU,DC=TestDomain,DC=Local” since it has the special character comma (,). because in csv file the comma (,) is the key character to split column headers. (Ex file: Download NewUsers.csv).

   2. Copy the below Powershell script and paste in Notepad file.
   3. Change the NewUsers.csv file path with your own csv file path.
   4. Change the domain name TestDomain.local into your own domain name
   5. SaveAs the Notepad file with the extension .ps1 like Create-BulkADUsers-CSV.ps1

Click to download Powershell script as file Download Create-BulkADUsers-CSV.ps1

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
Import-Csv "C:\ScriptsNewUsers.csv" | ForEach-Object {
 $userPrincinpal = $_."samAccountName" + "@TestDomain.Local"
New-ADUser -Name $_.Name `
 -Path $_."ParentOU" `
 -SamAccountName  $_."samAccountName" `
 -UserPrincipalName  $userPrincinpal `
 -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "MyPassword123" -AsPlainText -Force) `
 -ChangePasswordAtLogon $true  `
 -Enabled $true
Add-ADGroupMember "Domain Admins" $_."samAccountName";
}

   6. Now run the Create-BulkADUsers-CSV.ps1 file in Powershell to create Bulk Active Directory users from CSV file.

PS C:Scripts> .Create-BulkADUsers-CSV.ps1

Note: I have placed script file in the location C:Scripts, if you placed in any other location, you can navigate to that path using CD path command (like cd “C:\Downloads”).

   7. Now you can check the newly created AD users though ADUC console.

Powershell Script to Create Bulk AD Users for Testing

   1. Copy the below Powershell script and paste in Notepad file.
   2. Change the value for the variable $totalUsers as per your wish like 1000 or more
   3. Change the Parent OU path with your own Test OU’s DN
   4. SaveAs the Notepad file with the extension .ps1 like Create-BulkADUsers.ps1

Click to download Powershell script as file Download Create-BulkADUsers.ps1

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
$totalusers = 10
for ($i=0; $i -lt $totalusers; $i++) 
 { 
 $userID = "{0:00}" -f ($i + 1)
 $userName = "TestUser$userID"

 Write-Host "Creating AD user" ($i + 1) "of" $totalusers ":" $userName

New-ADUser `
 -Name $userName  `
 -Path  "OU=TestOU,DC=TestDomain,DC=Local" `
 -SamAccountName $userName `
 -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "MyPassword123" -AsPlainText -Force) `
 -Enabled $true
 Add-ADGroupMember "Domain Admins" $userName;
}

   5. Now run the Create-BulkADUsers.ps1 file in Powershell to create Multiple Active Directory users for Testing.

PS C:Scripts> .Create-BulkADUsers.ps1