ITGuy
Wed Jul 27 12:58:08 CDT 2005
thanks for your advice and have a good one..
"Jango Fett" wrote:
> IT-Guy wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'v been asked to create more than 200 new users account & their exchange
> > mailboxes. I have all the information in Excell file
> > First Name
> > Last Name
> > Initials
> > I wonder if there is any way to write a VBScript whow read the user
> > infromation from the Excell file and create the USER Account & MailBox in our
> > AD.
> > thanks for your help
> >
> > Windows platform is: windows server 2003 & Exchange Server2003
> >
>
> Hi IT-Guy,
>
> This is most possible yes. However I'm not going to write a script for
> you. There're loads of examples of the various sub-tasks on the
> internet. I'd advise you to look on the www and try a few things out.
> You're going to have to script the following:
>
> - enable your script to beable to move around and pull info from your
> excel spreadsheet
> - create the user
> - create any necessary folders for the user, with the appropriate
> permissions (e.g. home folder)
> - create mailbox with appropriate permissions
> - if using AD, you'd better use the LDAP provider instead of WinNT to
> facilitate the advanced properties available (e.g. OUs and nested
> groups). Using this provider is also more efficient.
>
> Try the scripting guys site on Microsoft.com or
>
http://cwashington.netreach.net. DX21.com also offers a great variety of
> tips as does
http://www.rlmueller.net/.
>
> Good luck and MTFBWY!
>