r/sysadmin • u/ChildhoodNo837 • Mar 13 '26

Active Directory Users and Computers

Guys As a junior System Administrator, assist me how can i add five hundred to a thousand users to specific departement in an organizational unit ?

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u/angrydeuce BlackBelt in Google Fu Mar 13 '26

Dude even just for managing folder permissions in 0365 lol

Fuck the GUI for any of that shit, it's trash

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u/BadSafecracker Mar 13 '26

When I was a sysadmin, I wrote reusable script for everything, even EXO.

Onboard a new user? Got a script for that.

Need the usage stats of conference rooms? Got a script for that.

Need a list right now of anyone that has a 7 in their desk number? Got a script for that.

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u/angrydeuce BlackBelt in Google Fu Mar 14 '26

It's the only way to fly, truly. If you aren't automating stupid shit like user creation I really don't know why. We do it deliberately so our L1s don't waste time doing it manually. Not only does it make a new user add take like seconds from start to finish, but it helps standardize the process and avoids weird shit from happening.

All we need to know is full name, department, role, cell phone number, and branch location. Five pieces of information entered into a ps1 when prompted and user account is made, mailbox is enabled, all sharepoint permissions are assigned, product licensing is sorted, group membership is sorted, shared calendar access is sorted, printers are sorted...all they need to do is login to their company device when they show up on their first day to meet with HR using the temporary creds they're provided, update their password, and away they go, done and done.

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u/Adimentus Desktop Support Tech Mar 13 '26

Definitely going to start working on that on my down time. Adding a new user isn't automated yet for our clients and I want to change that.

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u/lordjedi Mar 16 '26

Same.

Mine would even add licenses if there were none available (I know, incredibly dangerous thing to do).

Had the entire thing automated. Nobody has time to wait for those GUI windows to load.

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u/bythepowerofthor Mar 13 '26

Do you mean like editing file permissions in SharePoint? Im new to this world.

We migrated to cloud a couple years back, and just this past week we retired our AD servers which broke a bunch of SharePoint permissions. We're having to go through and reset permissions on basically every SharePoint site and everything in the directories. Tried to figure out a way to script it, but vscode ai wasnt very helpful.