Script the creation of local user accounts for Commerce Server 2007
I’ll be honest … I’m lazy. I hate doing repetitive things over, and over, and over again. So, while I was going through and installing Commerce Server 2007 on a new virtual machine, I decided to script out the creation of the local user accounts. Before we get to the script, a little background …
It is recommended that you create multiple accounts to handle the various roles within Commerce Server (such as the four web services, staging, etc). In a production environment, these should be created as Domain accounts; however, in development (or the virtual world) you may not have access to, or wish to use, a domain. Consequently, you can create these users as local accounts as well.
Below is a script that will go ahead and create these local users for you (if I have time I’ll create a similar script for domain accounts). Copy the text (or download the link) and save it to a .vbs file. You should be able to simply double-click the file, and then open up Local Users and Groups under Computer Management to double-check.
‘ Author: Wade Wegner
‘ Create date: 06/13/2007
‘ Description: Automate the creation of CS 2007 users
‘ File Name: CreateCS2007LocalUsers.vbs
‘ =====================================================
‘ Set the local computer name
strComputer = “.”
‘ Run the Load method
Load
‘ Encapsulates the processing of this script
Sub Load()
’ Create the CS 2007 users
CreateUser “CatalogWebSvc”,“Pa$$w0rd”,“Account for running the Catalog Web service”
CreateUser “CSDMSvc”,“Pa$$w0rd”,“Account for running the Commerce Server Direct mailer service”
CreateUser “CSHealthMonitorSvc”,“Pa$$w0rd”,“Account for running the Commerce Server health Monitoring service”
CreateUser “CSLOB”,“Pa$$w0rd”,“Account for running the Commerce Server adapters”
CreateUser “CSStageSvc”,“Pa$$w0rd”,“Account for running the Commerce Server Staging service”
CreateUser “MarketingWebSvc”,“Pa$$w0rd”,“Account for running the Marketing Web service”
CreateUser “OrdersWebSvc”,“Pa$$w0rd”,“Account for running the Orders Web service”
CreateUser “ProfilesWebSvc”,“Pa$$w0rd”,“Account for running the Profiles Web service”
CreateUser “RunTimeUser”,“Pa$$w0rd”,“IIS account for accessing a Commerce Server site or application”
MsgBox “Complete!”
End Sub
‘ Create the local user
Sub CreateUser(userName, password, description)
’ Check to see if the user exists; if so, then skip
If NOT CheckIfUserExists(userName) Then
Set objComputer = GetObject(“WinNT://” & strComputer & “”)
Set objUser = objComputer.Create(“user”, userName)
objUser.SetPassword password
objUser.FullName = userName
objUser.Description = description
objUser.Put “UserFlags”, 65600 ‘ Sets Password Never Expires to TRUE
’ and sets User Can’t Change Password to TRUE
objUser.SetInfo
Else
MsgBox userName & ” already exists!”
End If
End Sub
‘ Check to see if user exists
Function CheckIfUserExists(userName)
Set objComputer = GetObject(“WinNT://” & strComputer & “”)
objComputer.Filter = Array(“user”)
intFound = 0
For Each User In objComputer
If lcase(User.Name) = lcase(userName) Then
intFound = 1
End If
Next
If intFound = 1 Then
CheckIfUserExists = True
Else
CheckIfUserExists = False
End If
End Function
And there you have it!
CreateCS2007LocalUsers.vbs (2.46 KB)
I hope someone else finds this useful!
