{"id":2635,"date":"2013-10-31T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/10\/31\/powertip-create-a-new-user-in-active-directory-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-create-a-new-user-in-active-directory-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-create-a-new-user-in-active-directory-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Create a New User in Active Directory with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use the Active Directory module to create a user with Windows PowerShell.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I create a user in Active Directory with PowerShell?<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;In Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2, use the New-ADUser cmdlet.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 90px\">To create a new user named &ldquo;Doctor Scripto&rdquo; in Active Directory:<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 120px\">NEW-ADUSER doctor.scripto &ndash;Givenname Doctor &ndash;Surname Scripto<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use the Active Directory module to create a user with Windows PowerShell. &nbsp; &nbsp;How can I create a user in Active Directory with PowerShell? &nbsp;In Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2, use the New-ADUser cmdlet. &nbsp; To create a new user named &ldquo;Doctor Scripto&rdquo; in Active Directory: &nbsp; NEW-ADUSER doctor.scripto &ndash;Givenname [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-active-directory","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use the Active Directory module to create a user with Windows PowerShell. &nbsp; &nbsp;How can I create a user in Active Directory with PowerShell? &nbsp;In Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2, use the New-ADUser cmdlet. &nbsp; To create a new user named &ldquo;Doctor Scripto&rdquo; in Active Directory: &nbsp; NEW-ADUSER doctor.scripto &ndash;Givenname [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}