{"id":3498,"date":"2013-06-03T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/06\/03\/teched-2013-a-couple-of-scripts\/"},"modified":"2013-06-03T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T08:31:00","slug":"teched-2013-a-couple-of-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/teched-2013-a-couple-of-scripts\/","title":{"rendered":"TechEd 2013: A Couple of Scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: A couple of quick Active Directory scripts from the Scripting Guys booth.<\/p>\n

This morning Brian Wilhite, Chris Duck, and Mike Robbins were playing around with Windows PowerShell. They decided to create a couple of scripts. The first script creates an organizational unit and ten users in the organizational unit. Here are Chris, Mike and Brian as they work on the script.<\/p>\n

\"BrianMikeChris\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So what did they come up with? Here is the first script:<\/p>\n

Create AD Organizational Unit and 10 users<\/span><\/p>\n

$NewOUSplat = @{
    Name=”TechEd2013″
    Description=”MyScript”
    Path=”DC=NWTraders,DC=COM”
    }
New-ADOrganizationalUnit @NewOUSplat<\/p>\n

for ($i=1;$i -le 10;$i++) {
    $NewUserSplat = @{
        SamAccountName=”User$i”
        Name=”User$i”
        Path=”OU=TechEd2013,DC=NWTraders,DC=COM”
        }
    New-ADUser @NewUserSplat
    }<\/p>\n

Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase “OU=TechEd2013,DC=NWTraders,DC=COM” |<\/p>\n

select SamAccountName<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Here is the second script that performs the cleanup. One of my fundamental rules is that if a script creates something, I should also write the script so that it will delete that same something. So here’s the cleanup script:<\/p>\n

Remove AD Organizational Unit and users<\/span><\/p>\n

Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -Filter {Name -eq “Teched2013”} |
    Set-ADOrganizationalUnit -ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion:$false -PassThru |
    Remove-ADOrganizationalUnit -Recursive -Confirm:$false<\/p>\n

It looks like they are getting ready to open the doors. I will keep you updated with the “goings-on” here as time permits. Have an absolutely great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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