This is a small web application that can create and delete users in bulk. This may be useful in certain test situations.

To install:

• Unzip the bulkusers directory on your web server.
• Configure it as an application. It can be made an application from the properties page of the IIS console.
• Be sure the new IIS application uses .NET 2.0.

To configure:

• Create a folder in your portal that you will put these new users in. It is important that this folder only be used for this bulk users.
• Note the folder id of the new folder you created. You might do this by clicking into the folder then examining the query string.
• Open web.config for this web application. Put the appropriate values into the appSettings section so the web application will know how to connect, where to create users, group memberships, password, and so forth.

To use:

This web application is quite rudimentary in that all instructions are given through its query string. Examples are shown here:

• To create 25 users, browse to http://server/bulkusers/index.aspx?action=create&count=25
• To show all users in the folder, browse to http://server/bulkusers/index.asp?action=show
• To delete all users in the folder (regardless of how they were created), browse to http://server/bulkusers/index.aspx?action=delete

You should be very aware of the consequence of running the delete command. It deletes all users in the folder you specify in web.config. If you make the mistake of using an existing user folder for these bulk users, then the delete command will delete the pre-existing users who probably shouldn't be deleted.

Bill Benac
Written December, 2004
Updated August, 2009