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exercise 5.6 (continued)
add salespeople to the Administrators group, but you are doing so just for this exercise.)
Click OK.
10. Click the Account tab. Scroll down in the Account Options box and check the Account Is
Disabled check box.
11. Click OK in the user's Properties window to go back to the Sales OU.
12. Right-click the Sales Template account and choose Copy.
13. Enter the following information:
First Name: Jenny
Last Name: Sales
Username: jsales
Password: P@ssw0rd
Uncheck the Account Is disabled check box.
14. In the right window, double-click the Jenny Sales user to open the properties.
15. Take a look at the Members Of tab, the General tab, and the Profile tab, and you will see
that some of the fields are prefilled (including the Administrators group).
16. Close Jenny Sales Properties and exit Active Directory Users and Computers.
Importing Objects from a File
In Exercise 5.5, you created an account using the Active Directory Users and Computers
tool. But what if you need to bulk import accounts? There are two main applications for
doing bulk imports of accounts: the ldifde.exe utility and the csvde.exe utility. Both
utilities import accounts from files.
The ldifde utility imports from line-delimited files. This utility allows an administrator
to export and import data, thus allowing batch operations such as Add, Modify, and Delete
to be performed in Active Directory. Windows Server 2012 R2 includes ldifde.exe to help
support batch operations.
The csvde.exe utility performs the same export functions as ldifde.exe , but csvde.exe
uses a comma-separated value file format. The csvde.exe utility does not allow administra-
tors to modify or delete objects. It only supports adding objects to Active Directory.
Active Directory Migration Tool
Another tool that administrators have used in the past is Active Directory Migration Tool
(ADMT) . ADMT allows an administrator to migrate users, groups, and computers from a
previous version of the server to a current version of the server.