User account creation script

I created a relatively complex Powershell script to manage creating new user accounts in our environment.

It handles the following:

• Highly configurable with a separate config file to customize to your site
• Creating the user in AD from a .csv file with just a few simple fields
• User settings based on a template account–you can use a template for each department
• User name and login name are automatically generated and guaranteed unique
• Generates a random passphrase from a dictionary of your choice (sample is provided)
• Setting up two network folders for the user — a U: drive and an S: drive in our environment
• Sets up AD variables that I use later for account archiving and setting defaults automatically with Group Policy for Office save locations, Outlook “home page” setting etc.
• Activating for Office 365
• Sending a welcome email message
• Some applications specific to our office:
• Activating proper permissions for Mimecast archiving
• Setting up the account for the Esquire Innovations iCreate template database
• A fair amount of error handling based on a few years of issues we ran into–handles race conditions, improper input in the names, etc.
• Output of the script is saved to a .csv file designed to be imported into KeePass. 
• A moderate amount of information is logged by default