3,000 test users

Do you ever have need of a few hundred to a few thousand random names to populate your Active Directory in order to test something?

This is the requirement I had a few weeks back so I dug out about 3,000 random names from the 1901 census and threw them into a csv file that can be read by the addusers tool.

My names.csv file can be downloaded by clicking on the blog article link or by clicking here.

To get the users into active directory copy both adduseres.exe and names.csv to the root of your C: drive and then type in:

addusers /c c:\names.csv

addusers /? will give you a list of other options where you can set parameters for passwords and the like.