{"id":1941,"date":"2019-08-12T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hypervlab.co.uk\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2019-08-12T15:29:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T14:29:32","slug":"generating-random-username-for-poc-active-directory-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypervlab.co.uk\/?p=1941","title":{"rendered":"Generating Random User Names for PoC Active Directory Environments"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

In this blog post, I will cover how I create mass test accounts for my Active Directory Lab, but using real-world names, not just user01. to be able to achieve this we need to need to utilise some PowerShell and the website ht<\/a>tps:\/\/mockaroo.com\/<\/a>. The reason behind this is so I can then sync my test account to my HypervLAB AzureAD Tennent and then test with some Office365 User Groups. So we need firstly we need a CSV file with a FirstName, LastName setup. this can be achieved using mockaroo, which is an online website which allows you to configure tables and rows and then generate a pretty much limitless number of users. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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mockaroo, will allow you to generate up to 1000 rows for free, which I think for any kind of lab environment would be huge! For my test ideally, I want 200 Users, Which will be broken down into 50 – Engineering, 50 Finance, 50 – Human Resources, 50 Internal IT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sample Export of the data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PowerShell Creation Script:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#\n# Active Directory User Import List\n# Author : Simon Lee\n# Date: August 2019 \n\n# Import PowerShell Module\nImport-Module -Name 'ActiveDirectory'\n\n# Define Csv Location\n$Csv = Import-Csv -Path C:\\Users\\administrator.hypervlab\\Desktop\\MOCK_DATA.csv\n\nForEach ( $User in $Csv ) {\n\n# Active Directory User Variables\n$DomainUPN = (Get-ADDomain).DNSRoot\n$GivenName = $User.first_name\n$ADGivenName = $GivenName.Substring(0,1)\n$LastName = $User.last_name\n$DisplayName = \"$GivenName\" + \" \" + \"$LastName\"\n$ADAccount = $ADGivenName + $LastName\n$UPNAccountID = \"$ADAccount\" + \"@\" + \"$DomainUPN\"\n$DefaultPwd = 'Password123!!' | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force\n\n# PowerShell Creation Script\nNew-ADUser `\n-Enabled $true `\n-Name $DisplayName `\n-DisplayName $DisplayName `\n-GivenName $GivenName `\n-Surname $LastName `\n-SamAccountName $ADAccount `\n-UserPrincipalName $UPNAccountID `\n-Path 'OU=TestOU,OU=User Accounts,OU=HypervLAB,DC=ad,DC=hypervlab,DC=co,DC=uk' `\n-AccountPassword $DefaultPwd `\n-ChangePasswordAtLogon $true `\n-Verbose\n\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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