Create Lab AD (continue)

In my last post I did show you how to take names
from the internet to make “real” names.

I know that these are Swedish names and I will post
2 similar functions with US names later on.

Now when we have the names we want to make
usernames (samAccountName) of them as well.

So, first of all we need to clean the names from special
characters and other letter that we don’t want to use.
(All of the –creplace should be on the same line)

$userFirstName = $firstName -creplace('å','a')

-creplace('ä','a') -creplace('ö','o')

-creplace('Å','A') -creplace('Ä','A')

-creplace('Ö','O')  -creplace('ü','u')

-creplace('Ü','U') -creplace('é','e')

-creplace('É','E')

And then we want to only use lower letters.

$userFirstName = $userFirstName.ToLower()

And then we want to take the first 2 letters in the first name.

$userShortFirstName = $userFirstName.Substring(0,2)

For the last name we will do the same thing.

$userLastName = $lastName -creplace(‘å‘,‘a‘)

-creplace(‘ä‘,‘a‘)   -creplace(‘ö‘,‘o‘)

-creplace(‘Å‘,‘A‘)  -creplace(‘Ä‘,‘A‘)

-creplace(‘Ö‘,‘O‘)  -creplace(‘ü‘,‘u‘)

-creplace(‘Ü‘,‘U‘)  -creplace(‘é‘,‘e‘)

-creplace(‘É‘,‘E‘)

$userLastName = $userLastName.ToLower()

$userShortLastName = $userLastName.Substring(0,$lettersUNamelName)

And we like to be able to create lots of accounts so we need to add
numbers to our samAccountNames.

So we do like this

$userNumber = Get-Random -Minimum 10000 -Maximum 99999

And then we put It all together like this

$userSAM = $userShortFirstName + $userShortLastName + $userNumber
    

The output of this will be something like

frwa12997

asv34432

teol98231

If you want more possible users, then you can higher the
-Maximum number. And if you want less numbers you can lower
the –Minimum and –Maximum numbers.

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