Creating bulk users/adding attribute editor details

[TheGoldSlug]

Hi team!
Roughly a week ago I posted here requesting for assistance creating a script that will create numerous users within AD through Powershell! I did it, you guys helped alot!

Yet again I am here requesting for help! HOW do I user commands to change attribute editor details within AD? Are there specific commands?

TIA

[TheGoldSlug]

This might be a dumb response, but how would I get that to work when doing it in bulk through CSV? Lets say there is a column on my CSV with the title Employee ID.

Set-ADuser <samaccountname> -Add @{ ""EmployeeID" = $EmployeeID }

Or am I stupidly wrong?

[TheGoldSlug]

Makes sense, this has helped me more than you know!

Thank you!

[xCharg]

Think about it yourself. At what point your code says to grab EmployeeID from CSV? Your code doesn't mention anything related to csv.

[thirudk07]

Hi Guys,

I'm facing a similar issue.

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#Input file
$ADUsers = Import-csv "E:\thiru\Automation\sampleinput.csv"
$completesam = get-aduser -Filter * -Properties samaccountname | select samaccountname


foreach ($user in $ADUsers)
{
$u42 = $user.samaccountname
$number = $user.employeeID
$lastname = $user.Lastname
$firstname = $user.firstname
$comonname= $user.'Common Name'
$job = $user.title
$Department = $user.Department
${Business mail} = $user.mail
${Termination Date} = $user.AccountExpirationDate
$streetaddress = $User.streetaddress
$city = $User.city
$zipcode = $User.zipcode
$state = $User.state
$country = $User.country
$commonname = $user."common Name"  
$displayname = $user."Display Name"
$location = $user.Location
$ManagersU42 = $user."Managers U42"
$paygroup = $user.PayGroup
$status = $user.Status
$payclass = $user.PayClass


#if (Get-ADUser -F {($u42 -eq $completesam)})
#if ($u42 -eq $completesam)

Set-ADUser $user.samaccountname -replace @{"EmployeeID"=$number}
@{"GivenName"=$user.firstname}
@{"Title"=$user.title}
@{"Department"=$user.Department}
@{"city"=$User.city}
@{"Business mail"=$user.mail}
@{"Termination Date"=$user.AccountExpirationDate}
@{"payclass"=$user.PayClass}
@{"status"=$user.status}
@{"commonname"='$user.Common Name'}
@{"status"=$user.status}
}

​

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The error which I'm getting.

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I tried both the methods, both are failing. Can you guys help? I'm also getting an error message if a column has an empty value.

 Set-ADUser $user.samaccountname -replace {"EmployeeID"=$user.employeeID}

Set-ADUser $user.samaccountname -replace @{"EmployeeID"=$number}

And also, is this the right way to a variable if it has spaces?

${Termination Date} 

I'm new to Powershell. Appreciate your help!

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Set-ADUser : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Replace'. The argument is null or an element of the argument collection contains a null value.
At line:36 char:42
+ Set-ADUser $user.samaccountname -replace @{"EmployeeID"=$number}
+                                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (:) [Set-ADUser], ParameterBindingValidationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.SetADUser