Bulk user creation in Blackberry Enterprise Server

In most organizations, we would already have a list of users present in our messaging environment (or in Active Directory). Instead of adding a single user at a time—which in a large organization could take up valuable time—we can create a .csv file and import a batch of users. When we carry out the import of users, we can specify:

The names of the groups we want to add the users to
Details about activation such as type of activation, password, and expiry times
E-mail address
Which Blackberry Enterprise Server instance to join, denoted via the SRP ID
For the purpose of this lab, we are going to create a .csv file that will create and add six users to our group called Sales Team. Set each one up with a default activation password of 'password', which has an expiry time of 40 hours.

1. Open up Notepad.

2. Add the following column headings, each separated on one line with a comma:
E-mail address
SRP ID
Group names
Activation password operation
Activation password
Activation password expiry
For each user, specify their e-mail address, the SRP ID for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server instance we want to join, and the group name—in our case it will be "Sales Team". We will set the activation password operation for all users to specify, the activation password for all users will be "password", and the expiry time will be 40, denoting 40 hours before the password expires. Your text file should look similar to the following screenshot

3. Save the file as a normal .txt file, if created in a notepad.

4. Within the BlackBerry Administration Service, navigate to the BlackBerry solution management section.

5. Expand User and select Create a User, then select Import new users.

6. Browse to the text file we created previously and select Continue.

7. Once the import is finished, you will see the message stating the following users have been created and e-mailed the activation password we set in our CSV file, as shown in the previous screenshot of the CSV file.

8. In the CSV import file settings, we can—under Activation Password Operation—choose to type the following keywords, which would have alternative effects on the user activation method:
Generate: This would automatically generate and e-mail an activation password to the users
None: It will just create the user account

9. We can also check to ensure that the six users are added to the Sales group.

10. Click on Manage groups, select Sales Team, and then select View group membership.