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Matching Arbitrary Name Lists in Active Directory

September 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments

This script will take a CSV file of two columns — ostensibly in ‘last-name, first-name’ format — and attempt to convert it into valid userIDs, despite irregularities in the list.

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Why not to use Excel for Data Gathering

August 6th, 2008 · 15 Comments

Here’s a request that happens fairly regularly in different offices I’ve been associated with:

We receive surveys/orders/documents that have been filled out by various people as Excel spreadsheets
We need to put the information into a database
We want you to write a script to automate the imports.

My thoughts as a scripter:

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