I had an opportunity to teach PowerShell Active Directory basics to some of my junior subordinate, Where I wanted them to show few test cases on creating multiple active directory user accounts, After building active directory from scratch, As this was the demo example lab, accounts created running below one liner, I can create n number of user accounts in one shot, without wasting any time. Once command is executed it creates 20 accounts, name starting with user in the given ldap ou path. Password is blank and it will be asking for password upon login.
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1..20 | foreach {New-ADUser -Name user$_ -PasswordNotRequired $true -Enabled $true -Path 'ou=Temp-Users, dc=vcloud-lab, dc=com'}
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