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Creating Users

The New-ADUser cmdlet creates a new Active Directory user with the specified parameters:

#Import the ActiveDirectory module
Import-Module ActiveDirectory

$domainName = "theepicnik.local"
$firstName = "John"
$lastName = "Doe"
$userName = "johndoe"
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString "P@ssw0rd123" -AsPlainText -Force
$ou = "OU=Users,DC=theepicnik,DC=local"

#Create account using New-ADUser
New-ADUser -Name "$firstName $lastName" -SamAccountName $userName -AccountPassword $password -Enabled $true -Path $ou -Server $domainName

This script creates a new user account with the specified properties.

  • -Name: Specifies the display name of the user account.
  • -SamAccountName: Specifies the SAM account name of the user account.
  • -AccountPassword: Specifies the password for the user account.
  • -Enabled: Enables the user account.
  • -Description: Specifies the description for the user account.
  • -Path: Specifies the OU where the user account is created.
  • -Server: Specifies the AD domain where the user account is created.

You can modify this example to match your specific environment and create user accounts with the desired properties.

Note:

You can use the Get-Help cmdlet with the -Parameter option to list all available parameters for a PowerShell cmdlet. Just replace the name of the cmdlet with ‘New-ADUser’ in below command.

Get-Help New-ADUser -Parameter *