Editor's note: This article is the sixth part of a 12-part series about Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) The series started in the January 1999 issue. Refer to previous installments for definitions and background information.
In the previous five articles, I discussed the basics of ADSI and how ADSI works. In the remaining articles, I'll show you how to use ADSI to help you with daily tasks, such as manipulating user accounts, services, shares, and sessions in Windows NT's SAM and Windows 2000's (Win2K's) Active Directory (AD). This month, I show you how to automate two fundamental administrative tasks: creating and manipulating user accounts.
Although tools to create user accounts already exist (e.g., the Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Resource Kit's Addusers utility), ADSI's versatility lets you quickly write a script that creates one or many user accounts and manipulate existing accounts. For example, you can write a script that creates one standard or full-featured user account or a script that creates 1000 full-featured user accounts. You can even create a command-line utility that unlocks locked-out user accounts. . . .
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<p>Charles - Use the SearchAD function from article 5 in the ADSI Primer series (May 1999) to search the AD first using ADO.<br>
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Note that September 1999 contained a correction to that article.<br>
<b>--Alistair</b></p>
Charles Schmidt March 27, 2001