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I built a tool to populate an empty Active Directory instance with fake user identity data, including office addresses, departments, organisational linkages, se
by Jaruzel 4y ago
I built a tool to populate an empty Active Directory instance with fake user identity data, including office addresses, departments, organisational linkages, security and distribution groups, and of course all the actual user data.
It could fill an AD with upto 50,000 identities and associated data, which could then be used for testing. The engineer could tweak every aspect before it got created.
Beyond fully writing it and getting it to a version 1.0 state, I never marketed it as I had a sudden crisis of faith and thought no-one would actually want it.
- mediamogul 4y agoI am blessed that my crises of faith mostly hit before even starting work on an idea I think is clever. Accomplishes the same thing - minimizing any potential success - but further upstream.
- Jaruzel 4y agoIn this case, it was something I needed, but I took it way beyond a scrappy tool just for me, and turned it into a full production level wizard based GUI app. I guess not all of that was wasted effort.