One of my colleagues told me, how she struggles with creating 10 CRM Accounts everytime she has a new Demo(she does more than 3 a week). Plus manually assigning the licenses.
And as a hero i told her that Powershell is always the solution, so i wrote this script that bulk creates and assigns licenses.
This script creates Azure Active Directory accounts, that means it can be also used for Office365, SharePoint, CRM…etc
Azure Active Directory Powershell
The script uses the AzureAD Powershell.
First you need to install it on your computer by running this cmdlet :
Install-Module AzureAD
How to use it
Just download the 2 files and start the ps1 script.
Input.Json : input
Script : New-AzureADAccountBulk
Script Logic
The script’s Input is a file Input.json that provied those Infos
- Tenant Name
- Admin Login
- Admin Password
- List of Users to create
- Display Name
- Mail NickName(the email’s preffix)
- Password
- List of Licenses to Assign
License Names could be listed by running this command
Connect-AzureAd
Get-AzureADSubscribedSku
License samples :
- SHAREPOINTENTERPRISE
- DYN365_ENTERPRISE_PLAN1
- POWER_BI_PRO
- ENTERPRISEPACK
The Script
The scripts can be downloaded here. I changed the extension to pdf, because WordPress doesn’t allow ps1 and json extensions.
Input.Json : input
Script : New-AzureADAccountBulk
I will not go through the whole document, but i will comment the improtant commands.
$config = Get-Content .\input.json | Out-String | ConvertFrom-Json
#Reading the json file$adminPwrd = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $config.AdminPassword -AsPlainText -Force
$Credential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $config.AdminLogin, $adminPwrd#Using -Credential was to avoid the login popup
Connect-AzureAd -Credential $Credential…..
#Loading the License from Azure Active Directory. If license not found, a warning is displayed
$liceTemp = (Get-AzureADSubscribedSku | Where-Object -Property SkuPartNumber -Value $license -EQ)try
{
#check if the User already exists
$user = Get-AzureADUser -ObjectId $userPrincipalName
}
catch
{
$user = $null
}
if($user -eq $null)
{
write-host “Creating User ” $account.DisplayName
#Create the User. -UsageLocation is important for the license attribution
$newUSer = New-AzureADUser -DisplayName $account.DisplayName -PasswordProfile $PasswordProfile -UserPrincipalName $userPrincipalName -AccountEnabled $true -MailNickName $account.MailNickname -UsageLocation DE
write-host “User Created ” $account.DisplayName -ForeGroundColor Green
}
else
{
write-host “User ” $userPrincipalName ” already exsitst. Trying assigning License”
}
…..
if($licensesObj.AddLicenses.Count -ne 0)
{#Set the license only if found
Set-AzureADUserLicense -ObjectId $userPrincipalName -AssignedLicenses $licensesObj
write-host “Licenses for User ” $userPrincipalName -ForeGroundColor Green
}
