Prerequisites: Active Directory, PowerShell, ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory
Setup: You have access to a domain member computer in a Active Directory domain
Problem: You have a text file with many group names and you want to create them quickly
Solution: Open ActiveRoles PowerShell console and run these commands:
$file = gc c:\groupnames.txt # group names 1 per line
$file | %{New-QADGroup -ParentContainer "OU=TestOU,DC=domain" -name $_ -samaccountname $_ -GroupScope DomainLocal}
Tips 1: If you want to work in another domain connect to it first:
connect-qadservice fqdn.of.the.domain -credential $cred
Tips 2: An easy method to find out the full DN of an OU, for parent container for example:
Get-QADObject <OUname> | select dn