Quick Way To Create Hundreds of User Accounts in AD

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I just had to create a few hundred user accounts in a test AD environment and the easiest way I new of is to use the DSADD USER cmd line tool. DSADD ships with Windows Server 2003 under the C:\Windows\System32 directory.

In these examples, I'm creating accounts with the username format of user001, user002, ... user099, user100, etc.  These command can be executed sequentially directly from a cmd prompt, or you can paste the commands into a .bat file and execute either from the command line or by double clicking.

FOR /L %%i IN (1,1,9) DO dsadd user "CN=user00%%i,CN=Users,DC=tailspintoys,DC=com" -display user00%%i  -pwd pass@word1 -canchpwd no -pwdneverexpires yes

FOR /L %%i IN (10,1,99) DO dsadd user "CN=user0%%i,CN=Users,DC=tailspintoys,DC=com" -display user0%%i  -pwd pass@word1 -canchpwd no -pwdneverexpires yes

FOR /L %%i IN (100,1,999) DO dsadd user "CN=user%%i,CN=Users,DC=tailspintoys,DC=com" -display user%%i  -pwd pass@word1 -canchpwd no -pwdneverexpires yes

If you need to create the user accounts in a seperate Organizational Unit (OU) in AD, modify the UserDN as appropriate.