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dude!!! isn't there a company policy not to i...

2011-01-13T16:48:40.269-08:00

dude!!! isn't there a company policy not to include passwords in emails? this is far worse, your blogging our password to the internet....lol. thats a big no no jarett. haven't u learned from my mistakes?

Another version of your script could look like tha...

2010-07-08T12:55:04.553-07:00

Another version of your script could look like that:

function create-account ([string]$accountName = "test") {
$wmiuser = Get-WmiObject -class "Win32_UserAccount" -filter "name='$accountName'"
if($wmiuser -eq $null)
{
$hostname = hostname
$comp = [adsi] "WinNT://$hostname"
$user = $comp.Create("User", $accountName)
$user.SetPassword("test")
$user.SetInfo()
}
else
{
write-warning "User $accountName already exits";
}
}

foreach($userNo in 1..10)
{
create-account("test$userNo");
}

Also found this: some guy's extensive post on ...

2009-07-13T08:08:55.346-07:00

Also found this: some guy's extensive post on Active Directory objects; should be able to apply some of this to local users.

http://blogs.technet.com/benp/archive/2007/03/05/benp-s-basic-guide-to-managing-active-directory-objects-with-powershell.aspx

*Reference on UserAccount http://msdn.microsoft.co...

2009-07-13T07:49:47.753-07:00

*Reference on UserAccount
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394507%28VS.85%29.aspx

*How to add a user to a group
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/mar08/hey0311.mspx

2009-07-13T06:30:09.771-07:00

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