SharePoint 2010 Central Admin to add users from AD from specific Department

Question

Dear All,
I am working on SharePoint Foundation 2010. I have to add users from specific department to a particular site collection.
Please let me know if there is a way to import users from Active Directory based on the 'Department' filed in
SPCA.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Is that okay if I share the PowerShell code? Do you have access to Active Directory and can you query information?
Refer this Link
Code
# set site collection owner for all sites...
# 1-2012
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
# $AccountList is an array of Windows Identities in the format of $AccountList = @("DOMAIN\USERID" , "DOMAIN\USERID2")
$accountList = @(Get-ADUser -Filter {(Department -like '*Ur Needs*')})
#$AccountList = @("LAB\Jack", "Lab\tom", "Lab\dick", "lab\harry")
#this gets an array of objects representing the sites at the IIS level:
$IISSites = Get-SPWebApplication
Foreach($oneIISSite in $IISSites)
#using .Sites, we can get a list of the site collections
foreach ($SharepointSiteCollection in $oneIISSite.Sites)
write-host $SharepointSiteCollection.url -ForegroundColor Cyan
$spweb = Get-SPWeb $SharepointSiteCollection.url
#now we have the website, so lets look at each account in our array
foreach ($Account in $AccountList.samaccountname)
#lets see if the user already exists
Write-host "Looking to see if User " $account " is a member on " $SharepointSiteCollection.url -foregroundcolor Blue
$user = Get-SPUSER -identity $Account -web $SharepointSiteCollection.url -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #This will throw an error if the user does not exist
if ($user -eq $null)
#if the user did NOT exist, then we will add them here.
$SPWeb.ALLUsers.ADD($Account, "", "", "Added by AdminScript")
$user = Get-SPUSER -identity $Account -web $SharepointSiteCollection.url
Write-host "Added user $Account to URL $SPWeb.URL" -Foregroundcolor Magenta
else
Write-host "user $Account was already in URL " $SPWeb.URL -Foregroundcolor DarkGreen
if ($user.IsSiteAdmin -ne $true)
$user.IsSiteAdmin = $true
$user.Update()
Write-host "$account has been made an admin on $SPWeb.URL" -Foregroundcolor Magenta
else
Write-host "$account was already an admin on $SPWeb.URL" -Foregroundcolor DarkGreen
$SharePointSiteCollection.Dispose()
Note:
First uncomment the second $accountlist add the user manually to test
If you have AD module installed in your SP server you can use
$accountList = @(Get-ADUser -Filter {(Department -like '*Ur Needs*')})
Regards Chen V [MCTS SharePoint 2010]