Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

7-7: Provisioning the Creation of Users

Solution overview

Type of solution	Scripts and tools
Features and tools	User_Provision.vbs, User_Provision.hta, provisioning concepts
Solution summary	Provisioning the creation of users with custom tools allows you to inject business logic and rules into the process.
Benefits	Increased compliance with standards and conventions for objects and attributes; support for automated object creation and management.

Introduction

When you create or manage an object using native Windows tools such as the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in, you are using an attribute editor that has almost no data validation and incorporates none of the rules specific to your business. Let's assume, as suggested elsewhere in this resource ...