User Creation Script

Question

Hello,

I am looking for assistance in modifying our user creation script. When users with multiple names are being created for example, Jesus Geraldo Lopez, the user is being created as either L@123.com or jgeraldo l@123.com. Is there a way to modify our script to check for spaces in the first and last name field to and stop the user from being created? Also, would it be possible to modify the script to also check for special characters and replace them?

Here is our current user creation script. I appreciate any assitance. Thanks.

Import-Module Adaxes

function ReplaceCharacters($value)
{
    $map =@{ "å"="a"; "ö"="o"; "ä"="a";"ü"="u"; "ñ"="n"; "é"="e"; " "=""; "'"="" } # TODO: modify me

    foreach ($key in $map.Keys)
    {
        $value = $value.Replace($key, $map[$key])
    }

    return $value
}

function IsUserNameUnique($username)
{
   $user = Get-AdmUser $username -erroraction silentlycontinue
   return $user -eq $Null
}

# Get the username
$username = $Context.GetModifiedPropertyValue("samAccountName")
# Replace special characters in username
$username = ReplaceCharacters $username

# Check if the username is unique
$uniqueUsername = $Null
if (IsUserNameUnique($username))
{
    $uniqueUsername = $username
}

# If the username is not unique, generate a unique one
if ($uniqueUsername -eq $NULL)
{
    $firstName = $Context.GetModifiedPropertyValue("givenName")
    if ($firstName -ne $NULL)
    {
        # Add characters from first name, one by one
        $firstName = ReplaceCharacters $firstName
        for ($i = 0; $i -le $firstName.length; $i++)
        {
            $initial = $initial + $firstName[$i]
            $uniqueUsername = $username + $initial

            if (IsUserNameUnique($uniqueUsername))
            {
                break
            }

            $uniqueUsername = $Null
        }
    }
}

if ($uniqueUsername -eq $NULL)
{
    for ($i = 1; $True; $i++)
    {
        $uniqueUsername = $firstName + $username + $i
        if (IsUserNameUnique($uniqueUsername))
        {
            break
        }
    }
}

# Update User Logon Name (pre-Windows 2000)
$Context.SetModifiedPropertyValue("samAccountName", $uniqueUsername)
$Context.LogMessage("User Logon Name (pre-Windows 2000): $uniqueUsername", "Information")

# Get domain name
$domaiName = $Context.GetObjectDomain("%distinguishedName%")

# Update User Logon Name
$Context.SetModifiedPropertyValue("userPrincipalName", "$uniqueUsername@$domaiName")
$Context.LogMessage("User Logon Name: $uniqueUsername@$domaiName", "Information")

Answer 1

You can also do this with a property pattern regex of: ^[a-zA-Z]+$

We created a First Name and Last Name pattern with that regex and it stops spaces from being entered in the web interface. Since you are using scripts to do this, i'm not sure how that would work, but you could give it a shot (or is there a way to use regex in powershell? I'm not a script guy so I really dont' know)

Comments

I think this method would work well, but would like to keep things limited to a script for now. Any update from support?

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Looks like they have a script in their repository that will do what you want to do. You could take the pieces from that and use in your script:

http://www.adaxes.com/script-repository ... n-s299.htm