Nice way of doing it. I wrote a function (see sample code page) that does the same thing, but isn’t as elegant.

It was something I wrote early on playing with PoSH, and so is VBScript centric. I like your PoSH way much better.

Time to ferret out the library file and update it ;)

Thanks for the comment.

Cheers

Adam

#get the DN
$rootDSE = [ADSI]“LDAP://RootDSE”
$domainDN = $rootDSE.Get(“DefaultNamingContext”)

#convert the DN to FQDN
$domainFQDN = $domainDN -replace(“,dc=”,”.”) -replace(“dc=”,”")

1. Link/citing source: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1204480&SiteID=1

2. Calling lines of code:

#—————-
CreateHomeDirectory $username
$u.put(“homeDirectory”, $homeDirectory)
$u.put(“homeDrive”, $homeDrive)
$u.setInfo()
#——————–

3. Function:

#———————
function CreateHomeDirectory
{
param([string]$username)

trap
{
write-host “ERROR on account: $username”
write-host “ID: ” $_.ErrorID
write-host “Message: “$_.Exception.Message

break
}

$folderpath = “{0}{1}” -f $USER_ROOT_UNC, $username
$folder = get-item $folderpath -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if (-not $folder)
{
#see http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1204480&SiteID=1
#this explains why you need to set three rules for one user.

$folder = new-item $folderpath -itemtype directory -ErrorAction Stop
#InheritanceFlags.ObjectInherit = 2
#PropogationFlags.InheritOnly = 2
$ar1 = new-object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule($username,”FullControl”,2,2,”Allow”)

#InheritanceFlags.ContainerInherit = 1
#PropogationFlags.InheritOnly = 2
$ar2 = new-object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule($username,”FullControl”,1,2,”Allow”)

$ar3 = new-object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule($username,”FullControl”,”Allow”)

$acl = get-acl $folder
$acl.AddAccessRule($ar1)
$acl.AddAccessRule($ar2)
$acl.AddAccessRule($ar3)
set-acl $folder $acl -ErrorAction Stop
}
else
{
#ERROR.
#home directory shouldn’t already exist for a brand new user.
#this is a potential collision – need to manually resolve.
throw “user: $username – already has home directory of the same name.”
}
}