Powershell script to add home folder to users in Active Directory

[pmitconsulting]

Hello -- I have been banging my head for a while now, trying to figure out how to write a powershell script with the quest powershell extensions, which will:

1) Query AD for users in a specific OU that don't have a home folder specified.
2) For each found user, add an entry, pointing U: to \\server\share
3) Create the actual folder on the server at \\server\share\%username% with full control for administrators and modify permissions for the %username%.
4) Schedule the script to run on a 2003 SP2 Domain Controller...

I am going to go out and buy a powershell for dummies book later today, and would appreciate it (if i get a response that is) if you could annotate the solution / script with explanations. This will help me learn how pshell scripting works. A VBScript to do this may do, and I'm pretty close with one, but I'd prefer to do this in powershell, since everyone is switching to pshell scripting. Thanks in advance!

 

[Zelandakh]

I don't have a box to test however:

1) get-qaduser | where homefolder $null
2) map drive U yourself to the share root then:
pipe it into a New-item u:\%username% -type directory
3) Not looked at permissions
4) Schedule it on the file server containing the share would be easier...then it is a local creation.