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Mastering Active Directory
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Mastering Active Directory

by Dishan Francis
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
742 pages
18h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating user objects

In order to create a user object in Active Directory, we can use the New-ADUser cmdlet in PowerShell. You can view the full syntax of the command along with the accepted data types using this command:

Get-Command New-ADUser -Syntax 

In order to create a new user account using PowerShell, the minimum value you need to pass is -Name. It will create a disabled user account, and you can define values for other attributes later.

This is an example that can be used to create a user account:

New-ADUser -Name "Talib Idris" -GivenName "Talib" -Surname "Idris" -SamAccountName "tidris" -UserPrincipalName "tidris@rebeladmin.com" -Path "OU=Users,OU=Europe,DC=rebeladmin,DC=com" -AccountPassword(Read-Host -AsSecureString "Type Password ...
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