Adding New Users to Organization for Dummies???

[Gretchen Nobles]

I need to add about 350 student accounts to my domain.  I want to put them in the organization called Students 7-12.  I would like them to all have a generic password and be forced to change it at first login.  Is this possible?  If so... could you give me the command?  Also... how would I get the information into GAM?  I have an excel spreadsheet with their names in it.  Should I save it to .txt?  Do I have to save the .txt file in the same directory as GAM?

I thought about using the bulk upload in Google Apps and then using GAM to assign Organizational unit but if I can do it all with one command that would be great!

Pretend info:

Organization:  Students 7-12

User Name file:  student_mail.txt (or .csv whatever is best)

First Name: Test

Last Name: Student1

Password: Temppassword

First Name: Test

Last name: Student2

Password: Temppassword

Sorry for so many questions!  I'm a total newb!!!

~G

[Oliver Hartley]

Gretchen, we all have been there.... newB i mean.....

so here is what you need to do

1. goto the gam directory

2. type: gam info domain

insert the domain credentials asked.

3. create all users with the command: gam create user firstname "John" lastname "Smith" username john.smith password Temppassword

4. create organiational units: gam create org "Students 7-12"

5. to move users to a org:

5.1 create a .txt (ie. students.txt) file with all usernames each username in a sperate line if you open the file you should see a list of usernames like:

john.smith

john.adams

albert.einstein

5.2 copy that file to the gam directory

5.3 type the command in the gam directory: gam update org "Students 7-12" addfile students.txt

6. Pray :-)

Oliver Hartley Lyon | CTO | Tel: +562-640-3900 | Cel: +569-9162-7029

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[Gretchen Nobles]

Thanks for understanding the newb side of me!!!

And I love the step by step!  I think I can handle it!  (With lots of prayer of course!)  So create the users first then move them into the Org.  Got it.

The piece of the puzzle I still think I'm missing though is how to create multiple users?  I understand the command - gam create user firstname "John" lastname "Smith" username john.smith password Temppassword

But how do I multiply that by 350?  And where do I indicate that they need to change their password at the first login?

Thanks!

[Oliver Hartley]

ok this is what i do.

i create a spreadsheet with all the data an then in one of the cell's y do a concatenante and "create" the gam comand line with that done.... is just a copy and paste into a DOS shell... there is other ways to do it via power shell, but this way also works.... i just created a example for you :-)

With that done you can copy from f2 till the end all 350 lines and past in a DOS shell

Oliver Hartley Lyon | CTO | Tel: +562-640-3900 | Cel: +569-9162-7029

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[Gretchen Nobles]

Thanks!  I love the example!  Probably a stupid question but I've been messing with it and I can't figure it out!  How can I add "changepassword" to the end?

[Gretchen Nobles]

Actually I guess it should be "changepassword on" that I need to add to the end right?

[Gretchen Nobles]

Okay!  I think I've got it!!!  (Attached)  Maybe it will help another newb!!!!

Now any suggestions for Hyphenated or double names?  Example: First Name: Mary Jo  Last Name: Hyphenated-name

:-)

[Oliver Hartley]

Must be betwen "", like "Mary Jo"

Enviado desde mi dispositivo Android

[Gretchen Nobles]

Hmmm... the Firstname was between ""

Should I include "" around the username as well?

See results below:

C:\GAM>gam create user mhyphen-name Firstname "Mary Jo" Lastname "hyphen-name" p

assword temppassword changepassword on

Usage: gam [OPTIONS]...

Google Apps Manager. Retrieve or set Google Apps domain,

user, group and nickname settings. Exhaustive list of commands

can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/google-apps-manager/wiki/GAMExamples

Examples:

gam info domain

gam create user jsmith firstname John lastname Smith password secretpass

gam update user jsmith suspended on

gam.exe update group announcements add member jsmith

...

[Sandip Shah]

Hi Gretchen,

If you are going to put double quotes around username, be careful -
there cannot be a space in username.

Sandip

[Gretchen Nobles]

Thanks.  I couldn't get hyphen user names to work with our without the "" It's okay - I don't have that many - I can just do those by hand.

[Gretchen Nobles]

Update:  

The command:

changepassword on    

Only works with gam update.  

For gam create user use:

changepassword   

Updated Example spreadsheet is attached.

Thanks so much for the help you guys!!!

[Oliver Hartley]

team work ;)

Oliver Hartley Lyon | CTO | Tel: +562-640-3900 | Cel: +569-9162-7029

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