Archive for April, 2010

IT Toolbox: TechNet Magazine April 2010

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

The new IT toolbox column has been posted to the TechNet Magazine website.  This month, I covered 3 cool tools:

  • VirtualBox: Free and open source virtualization platform for Windows
  • CPU-Z: Check out detailed stats on your CPU and memory with this free tool
  • Prime95: Stress test your new PC or server before you let it loose

Check it out and let me know what you think!

April 2010 IT Toolbox for TechNet Magazine

As always, if you have a suggestion for a product to cover, feel free to email me via tntools@microsoft.com.

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Quickly Create Test Users on your Domain Controller

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

If you are looking for a quick way to create test users in your domain, you can do so through the old NET USER command.  You will have to run this on your domain controller’s command prompt.  The following will create 200k test users:

for /l %i in (1,1,200000) do net user TestUser%i p@ssw0rd /domain /add

If you need to tweak more of the details of the test accounts, there are a number of other options for the NET USER command, but you most likely will want to take a look at the more robust tools out there like csvde.

Thanks to Daniel Petri for this little nugget.  For a more in depth view of your options for quickly creating test users, check out his post here:

http://www.petri.co.il/create_users_for_testing_purposes.htm

Hope this helps!

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