GAM / Powershell Script?

[Chris Rollison]

I set all my students with static passwords so the Active Directory sync tool doesn't do me any good since you have to change your password in order for it to grab the password.  I was wondering if anyone has come up with a decent script that would send a powershell command and gam command to create a user in both AD and Google Apps?  I really wish I was better at scripting but I think this would be handy.  Thanks.

[Michael Robertson]

Chris,

Do you have a database storing all the new user information?  

The commands you would be using are basically:

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New-Aduser -Name "FirstName LastName" -GivenName "FirstName" -Displayname "FirstName LastName" -Surname "LastName -UserPrincipalName "User...@Domain.com" -SamAccountName "Username" -Office "OfficeName" -HomeDrive "HomeDriveLetter" -HomeDirectory "\\UserHomeDirectoryPath" -Type "iNetOrgPerson" -Manager "UserManager -Company "CompanyName" .......etc

& C:\Gamdirectory\Gamexecutable create user "Username" firstname "Firstname" lastname "lastname" password "password

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As far as a script to do this.  I have one I created for my organization that reads all the information out of our company's product and then populates GAM and Powershell to use the above commands.

[Toby Williams]

You could also import user information from a csv file and iterate through the list with foreach.

[Chris Rollison]

Really what I was looking for is a direct input.  Create a script that would prompt for information for new students.  Enter a couple fields and it would create the user in both systems.

Thanks for the ideas though.

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[Toby Williams]

Well if you just want to enter data at the console then you can just put something like this in a script:

$FirstName = Read-Host  "Enter first name"
$LastName = Read-Host  "Enter last name"
$UserName = Read-Host  "Enter username"

Etc, etc.

Then when you get to executing the commands you just need to set the values to the relevant variables.

New-Aduser -Name $firstname $lastname -GivenName "$FirstName" -Displayname "$FirstName $LastName" -Surname $LastName

& C:\Gamdirectory\Gamexecutable create user $Username firstname $Firstname lastname $lastname password $password

I've been meaning to do something similar myself. I've not tested the above but it will work.

On Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:04:29 UTC+1, Chris Rollison wrote:

Really what I was looking for is a direct input.  Create a script that would prompt for information for new students.  Enter a couple fields and it would create the user in both systems.

Thanks for the ideas though.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Toby Williams <toby.buen...@gmail.com> wrote:

You could also import user information from a csv file and iterate through the list with foreach.

On Thursday, 11 September 2014 00:35:28 UTC+1, Michael Robertson wrote:

Chris,

Do you have a database storing all the new user information?  

The commands you would be using are basically:

--

New-Aduser -Name "FirstName LastName" -GivenName "FirstName" -Displayname "FirstName LastName" -Surname "LastName -UserPrincipalName "User...@Domain.com" -SamAccountName "Username" -Office "OfficeName" -HomeDrive "HomeDriveLetter" -HomeDirectory "\\UserHomeDirectoryPath" -Type "iNetOrgPerson" -Manager "UserManager -Company "CompanyName" .......etc

& C:\Gamdirectory\Gamexecutable create user "Username" firstname "Firstname" lastname "lastname" password "password

---

As far as a script to do this.  I have one I created for my organization that reads all the information out of our company's product and then populates GAM and Powershell to use the above commands.

On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 6:16:29 AM UTC-7, Chris Rollison wrote:

I set all my students with static passwords so the Active Directory sync tool doesn't do me any good since you have to change your password in order for it to grab the password.  I was wondering if anyone has come up with a decent script that would send a powershell command and gam command to create a user in both AD and Google Apps?  I really wish I was better at scripting but I think this would be handy.  Thanks.

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[Chris Rollison]

Great, thanks for the info to get me started.  Going to have to get this going.

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[Toby Williams]

No worries. This actually spurred me on to make my own function for creating new user accounts. I will share what I have once I finish.

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[Richard Kalk]

If you are using GADS for creating users in Google Apps, You can put a static password in an unused AD attribute of some sort, like the division attribute, and setup GADS to grab that password, it will create the user with that default password.  You can also set the sync to force a password change. 

[PatrickR]

I posted a PowerShell script I wrote for GAM in another thread here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/google-apps-manager/powershell/google-apps-manager/CoS2TcleKkI/z7xnQd2GtgMJ