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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook
book

Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook

by Jordan Krause
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
248 pages
7h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook

How to do it...

Follow along to create a new user account in Active Directory by using the PowerShell command prompt:

  1. Launch a PowerShell command prompt as an Administrator.
  2. Enter the following command in order to create a new user account with very simple parameters:
     New-ADUser -Name "John Smith" -UserPrincipalName
      "jsmith@mydomain.local" -SamAccountName "jsmith"
  1. If you open up the GUI for Active Directory Users and Computers, you will see that John Smith has now been created as a User account. There aren't many properties that exist within this account, as it is pretty simple, but it will work in order to get a new user up and running: ...
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