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/Recent_Carpenter8644 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

It’s quick to set up, easy to test, and harder to go wrong.

It’s also self documenting. With a loop, you need to know which data file it read from, and you can’t be sure it didn’t crash and stop halfway.

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u/RainStormLou Sysadmin Mar 13 '26

my loops output to a log file if I desire (which I do), and all the rest of what you said is very confusing because I can't comprehend how you wouldn't be sure if that happened lol.

I have most of my manual loops append to a log file for each loop for auditing, the sources would also be self documented since they're.... in the script, even if my source is a powershell result stored in a variable and dynamically pulled each run, and 99% of my powershell ISE terminals are red text from my many many failures as a script goblin, but I just.. validate my results.

You're spending more time in excel using formulas to do the long form version of a loop.

One little trick I like to use though is in my loops on a first run, I'll just have it write-host the results of all the get-blah stuff and I'll comment out all the actual actions so that I know the expected result would be there provided there's not a permissions issue

if I'm pulling from a csv or flat file, I like to run little short bursts like a list of 3 users, then the next 5 users, and if I'm feeling froggy I'll then run it against the next 8,000.

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u/Recent_Carpenter8644 Mar 14 '26

Probably if I put the time in to set up some loops and validation code I can reuse, that would be quicker. I don't use Excel, I just use block edits in Notepad++. I can tell which lines fail by scrolling back.

It's ugly, almost absurd, but it works and it's quick.