Create an AD User with VBScript
There are are about one hundred different ways to create an Active Directory user, via one hundred different scripting languages. Here is a way to do it with VBScript.
This script is another short, but to the point demonstration of performing basic Active Directory operations with VBScript. There is not much to it, but hopefully someone will find this useful in perhaps encompassing it in a function as part of a larger program.
Option Explicit
Dim strUser
Dim objRootLDAP, objContainer, objNewUser
strUser = "TestUser001"
' Bind to Active Directory, Users container.
Set objRootLDAP = GetObject("LDAP://rootDSE")
Set objContainer = GetObject("LDAP://cn=Users," & objRootLDAP.Get("defaultNamingContext"))
' Build the user object
Set objNewUser = objContainer.Create("User", "cn=" & strUser)
objNewUser.Put "sAMAccountName", strUser
objNewUser.SetInfo
After defining a few variables (you need to get into this habit, by the way), the script first makes a connection to Active Directory, specifically to the Users OU. Note the use of defaultNamingContext in this case. By using this method, we don't need to hardwire the domain in the script, thus making the script more portable.
The last three lines build the object, and send it up to Active Directory. If the account that the script is running under has the necessary permissions, the user will be created. If the account doesn't have the correct permissions, a nice, descriptive error will be shown, saying as much.
Hope this helps someone.
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Posted: 2017-09-19
By: vb6boy
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Active Directory
Visual Basic Script (VBS)
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