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by mroux

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Hello all! Seems as though there is some good info on this board & I'm glad I came across it!

I am a Network Administrator for a public school district in Texas. I am currently developing a plan to migrate the district from NT 4.0 to 2000. As of right now, there is one generic user account for students and a seperate generic user account for faculty. When we migrate, I would like to setup an individual account for each secondary level student as well as one for each staff member, along with setting up a 5Mb folder that only the individual can access on our file server. We're talking about several thousand accounts here. My question is, what would be the least painful way to setup all these accounts & folders with the correct permissionswithout having to input each individual account one at a time.

I would greatly appreciate anyone's comments, suggestions, or even jokes about what I'm about to embark on!

Best regards,
Micheal

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by dc1

Depending on how good your scripting is you can write ADSI scripts which will help out in this task. Search on www.google.com or msdn.microsoft.com for some examples.

by mroux

Thanks for the tip on ADSI. It seems as though it may be my answer, now I just need to brush up on my scripting skills!

by joseph moore

There are a couple different tools you can use to import users into AD. LDIFDE.EXE and CSVDE.EXE are the ones. LDIFDE uses scripting and LDAP to import/export/change users into AD Organizational Units and/or Domains.
CSVDE uses a comma-delimited file to do similar (but not as robust) things.
Here is a Microsoft article on how these two tools work:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/activedirectory/bulksteps.asp
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Hope this helps.

by mroux

I was already aware of those tools, but the link you provided to the Microsoft paper certainly helps! Thanks!

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