Summary: Use the Active Directory module to create a user with Windows PowerShell. How can I create a user in Active Directory with PowerShell? In Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2, use the New-ADUser cmdlet. To create a new user named “Doctor Scripto” in Active Directory: NEW-ADUSER docto...
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to generate random users in Active Directory. Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there an easy way to take a list of names and generate random combinations for sample users in Active Directory? —LD Hello LD, Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney here, filling in for our good friend, Ed. To catch up on the previo...
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to create a security group in Active Directory. How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a security group in Active Directory? In Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2, use the New-ADGroup cmdlet.To create a new global group in the default Users folder of Active Directo...
Summary: Create security groups in targeted organizational units in Active Directory. Hey, Scripting Guy! I was wondering if you could please show me how to use Windows PowerShell to create some security groups inside a set of organizational units in Active Directory. Is it difficult? —DS Hello DS, Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kea...
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to create an organizational unit in Active Directory. How can I use Windows PowerShell to create an OU in my Active Directory? In Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2, use the New-ADOrganizationalUnit cmdlet.To create a new OU at the root of Active Directory called &ldqu...
