balance users per db's

[turbo mcp Participant Points: 0Rank: Member]

Hi
I got interesting question
lets say I have 700 test users/mailboxes
that I want to load balance across 175 databases
how would I got about doing that?
for example I have this part nailed down:
Import-Csv c:\temp\out.csv | ForEach-Object { New-ADuser -path 'OU=OU1,DC=test,DC=corp' -Name $_.samAccountName -samAccountName $_.samAccountName –userPrincipalName $_.userPrincipalName -GivenName $_.cn -Surname $_.sn -displayName $_.displayName -accountpassword (ConvertTo-SecureString $_.Password -AsPlainText -Force) -Enabled $true}
[array]$databases=1..175 | % { "DB{0:000}" -f $_ }

this part is where I'm stuck:
# Enable mailboxes

Get-User -OrganizationalUnit 'OU=OU1,DC=test,DC=corp' -Filter 'RecipientType -eq "user"' | ForEach-Object { $email = $_.FirstName +"."+ $_.LastName +"@evo960.info"; Enable-Mailbox -Identity $_.SamAccountName -DisplayName $_.DisplayName -Alias $_.SamAccountName -PrimarySmtpAddress $email -Database ??????}

basically need to loop through $databases more then once(cause I got 175 and 700 users)
Thanks

[Curtis Smith Participant Points: 0Rank: Member]

There are several ways to accomplish this, but based on what you already have, you could do something like this.

Get-User -OrganizationalUnit 'OU=OU1,DC=test,DC=corp' -Filter 'RecipientType -eq "user"' | 
ForEach-Object {
    $dbID++
    $dbName =  "DB{0:000}" -f $dbID
    $email = $_.FirstName +"."+ $_.LastName +"@evo960.info"
    Enable-Mailbox -Identity $_.SamAccountName -DisplayName $_.DisplayName -Alias $_.SamAccountName -PrimarySmtpAddress $email -Database $dbName
    if ($dbID -eq 175) {$dbID = 0}
}

[turbo mcp Participant Points: 0Rank: Member]

Thanks
very helpful

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