Sometimes you need to make a new User, or maybe they need to reset their password (Oh no, how dare Timmy forget their password!). Lets make an account for Timmy and for demonstration reset their password.
In your Active Directory Server:
- Go to the start menu
- Search for Users
- Open Active Directory Users and Computers
Next lets make a new user for Timmy with a general overview.
Collapse the tree for “server.local” (This is the tree name for my AD. Yours will be whatever you put for it). After that click on users.
This is a good general window to know. It shows a list of all users. But lets make a new user. I just wanted to show you this window for future reference.
Timmy needs a new user account! Lets set that up for him!
First, right click on the Users “folder” under your AD name.
Go to New>>User
Fill out their info. It’s pretty self explanatory. Click next when you’re done.
Next you’ll see some options for the password
Type in a starter password for Timmy. In general it’s a great idea to make it so the user must change their password when logging in. This way, the user (“Timmy”) doesn’t have to give you their password and is just a basic security measure. For the sake of this guide I made the password “Test123”. Remember common password guidelines. By default there are password guidelines that can be changed but we wont worry about that right now and maybe will cover it another time. Great now Timmy has been added!
This is an extremely basic user. If we right click on Timmy in the list and hit “Properties” we can add personal info such as address, description, email address, and more. We can also do other things. Such as
- Under the “Account” tab we can for example: Set the expiration date of their password, change options, login hour restrictions, limit the computers the account has access to, change the user name and more
- User the “Member Of” tab we can add things like Groups. Which will be covered later.
- Under “Organization” we can add other personal details such as their Job parameters and title, name of their manager and more.
- Under “Remote Control” we can change settings that involve Remote control and observation of their session, if the admin needs permission from the user, and more.
- Along with many more advanced features that involve the user and their permissions such as Dial In settings, program the run at start-up and the list goes on.
But what about changing their password?
Well, you might have noticed when we right clicked on the user in the list there was a change password option. Just hit that. I mean, pretty quick to do.
Power move! Need to disable the account so they can’t login for security reasons?
Simple. Sometimes we need to disable accounts so they can’t login. Right click on the user in the same way of resetting their password. Bam, option is right there. On the flip side if we want to active the account we right click on the user again and hit enable account. Note, doing these options doesn’t delete the account or any data along with it. It simply disables it till its enabled again.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Currently we have not set up permissions for this user.