You have a Windows PowerShell script that contains the following code:
import-csv Accounts.csv | Foreach {New-ADUser -Name $_.Name -Enabled $true –
AccountPassword $_. password}
When you run the script, you receive an error message indicating that the format of the
password is incorrect.The script fails.
You need to run a script that successfully creates the user accounts by using the password
contained in accounts.csv.
Which script should you run?
A.
import-csv Accounts.csv | Foreach {New-ADUser -Name $_.Name -Enabled $true –
AccountPassword(ConvertTo-SecureString “Password” -AsPlainText -force)}
B.
import-csv Accounts.csv | Foreach {New-ADUser -Name $_.Name -Enabled $true –
AccountPassword(ConvertTo-SecureString $_.Password -AsPlainText -force)}
C.
import-csv Accounts.csv | Foreach {New-ADUser -Name $_.Name -Enabled $true –
AccountPassword(Read-Host -AsSecureString “Password”)}
D.
import-csv Accounts.csv | Foreach {New-ADUser -Name $_.Name -Enabled $true –
AccountPassword(Read-Host -AsSecureString $_.Password)}
Explanation:
import-csv Accounts.csv |
Foreach {
New-ADUser -Name $_.Name -Enabled $true – AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString
$_.Password –
AsPlainText -force)}
Personal comment:
import comma separated values file (most probably containing a column for Name and one
for Password) for each line of values create a new AD user with the name contained in the
Name column enable the account and set the password with the value contained in the
Password column; import the password from plain text as a secure string and ignore
warnings/errors
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849818.aspx
ConvertTo-SecureString
..
Parameters
-AsPlainText
Specifies a plain text string to convert to a secure string. The secure string cmdlets help
protect confidential text. The text is encrypted for privacy and is deleted from computer
memory after it is used. If you use this parameter to provide plain text as input, the system
cannot protect that input in this manner. To use this parameter, you must also specify the
Force parameter.
-Force Confirms that you understand the implications of using the AsPlainText parameter
and still want to use it.