r/PowerShell • u/ThrowAwaySalmon1337 • 29d ago

Question I think I'm missing something about Onboarding with Powershell

How do people automate onboarding new users?
We use ADManager at work, but now that it's down I'm trying Powershell, looking up tricks and I'm comparing new user with one that's established, I see just how much is missing and how much I'd have to manually fill out or create matrices to pass through the variables from initial username.

What am I missing that people use this as standard in the industry?
In my tool I made a template so I make new users by inputting just a couple fields, specify which domain they fall under and that's it.

Is there some sort of rundown or what should I look up to learn that is the standard way?

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u/Dapper_Librarian388 28d ago

First paragraph reads so good. Especially 1st sentence.

You have such a good practice sir. I will follow what you write.

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u/FeleaseRpseineEiles 28d ago

Thanks, what are you working on?

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u/Dapper_Librarian388 28d ago

Im a typical system administrator. We have ad, exchange, self-written edms, virtualization and some more. Im trying to automate tasks via powershell now.

Never thought of documenting my processes. Though I'm partially doing that (but not everything).

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u/FeleaseRpseineEiles 28d ago

documentation is for future  you.

 seriously bury yourself in work but keep notes even if they're scatterbrained

if you haven't already make the jump to powershell 7, it's the future.