Release date: Desember 21st 2022
Welcome to my Microsoft Tips & Tricks section. I recently experienced a complete hardware crash in my old lab, and had to do a complete rebuild. Although this was sad, it gave me the opportunity to do it by scripting this time. This involved recreating the OU-structure in AD, as shown below.
To set up this, I first created a csv-file with “;” as the delimiter containing the following data:
- OUName
- OUPath
The path is the distinguishedName of the OU. Right-click, select properties, then select the attribute editor.
Next, using the script below, I easily recreated the OU structure in AD. NOTE: The user I ran this script with had Domain Admin permissions, otherwise this wouldn’t have worked.
Import-Module activedirectory
$ADOU = Import-csv <Path to csv-file>.csv -Delimiter ";"
foreach ($ou in $ADou)
{
$name = $ou.OUName
$path = $ou.OUPath
New-ADOrganizationalUnit `
-Name $name `
-path $path `
}Now that I had created the OU structure to my liking, I could now proceed with creating my Admin User groups, which I also did by using a script, detailed here: Create AD Admin groups based on csv-file
Big thanks to: Robert Allen’s: Create Bulk Organizational Units (OU) in Active Directory with PowerShell
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