Powershell create AD Users in different OUs using csv

Question

I've got an problem creating new users in Active Directory. I've got a .csv file where I specified as one of many headers "location" with the City where the User will be situated, now I want to create the user in an OU that matches the "location" entry.

For example: "Location" is Dresden and OU is "OU=Users,OU=Dresden,OU=Germany,DC=acme,DC=com"

The same when location is "Munich" "OU=Users,OU=Munich,OU=Germany,DC=acme,DC=com"

I played around with Wildcars etc. but it seems there is a missing link in my brain, how can I create a variable- coming from the matching correct OU to set the correct -path command?

    $Domain   = 'dc=acme,dc=com'
$OUs = @( #what to put in here to make this to a matching variable?
  "OU=Users,OU=Munich,OU=Germany,",
  "OU=Users,OU=Munich,OU=Germany,",

)

Not sure If you can get my problem now :)

Dschordge

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 14 '18 at 16:28

If you pattern is always the same, you can just create a "template string" and drop the location value from the csv into the string with the string format operator (-f):

$Domain = 'dc=acme,dc=com'
$OUtmpl = "OU=Users,OU={0},OU=Germany,$Domain"

foreach($newUser in Import-Csv path\to.csv)
{
    $OU = $OUtmpl -f $newUser.location
    # create user in $OU here
}

Powershell create AD Users in different OUs using csv

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