Create user on logon?

[iolair]

Is it possible in Windows to allow a user to create their own username and password when they logon? We have thousands of guest users (students) we want to track, (audit their account) and creating thousands of users and passwords doesn't sound appealing, since I'm a one man shop.

Can this be done in Windows? I know websites running Unix/Linux allow users to create a login and password to access certain services on their websites. Especially those where you purchase items.

Thanks.

Iolair MacWalter
Director of IT

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

You would need a third party application that is (preferably) web-based and allows the user to request an account. Then when that request is submitted, there are scripts on the backend that would generate that account with in your AD, put in the proper OU (for group policy monitoring), assign it a password and then either send that user and email with the info OR display it immediately for usage.

This would be the same premise you see on shopping sites when they make you create an account to access resources.

Now, does anyone know of an existing application out there??

I am sure iolair doesn't want to recreate the wheel...

 

[Zelandakh]

You'd surely want to use their names? Don't you have a list of students? You can use Excel to store them then use the Windows toolkit tools to import them into AD.

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

Zelandakh is right; there are a lot of scripts out there that can reference a student list to create those account in one shot. It will take a lot of tweaking, but I believe there is a VBScript Forum here you may want to post in for this.

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=329

 

[Zelandakh]

There's a tool called CSVDE that reads from txt files. Set up the Excel spreadsheet, save as TXT delimited and use CSVDE to throw the user accounts into AD.

 

[iolair]

Yes, I can export a list of students from FoxPro into an Excel spreadsheet. I was worried that 20,000 students might have an impact on AD performance, memory use, and disk space use.

Iolair MacWalter
Director of IT

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

try it in a test environment, but I believe you will be ok depending on the build of your production DC (performance in mind) You may even think of building a child domain for these student accounts for even more security options...but that depend on your budget

 

[iolair]

That's an idea - I could create a new domain for them.

Iolair MacWalter
Director of IT

 

[Zelandakh]

sub domain...not domain.