From the course: Windows Server 2025: Install and Configure Active Directory

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Creating and managing users and groups

Creating and managing users and groups

- [Instructor] All right. So now that we have our organizational units set up, let's now go ahead and create a user. So we are just going to use the UI for this, and we'll just select new, and we'll select the option user, and we can enter the user's name here. When you create users, just make sure that you are selecting the correct domain name, and make sure that you are at the correct domain level. So in other words, that if the user, all your users are always logging in at your top level domain, just make sure that that is what is selected. So when we can select next, and we can select the option, user must change password, and you know, you can use these other options as needed. So if a user leaves the organization, you can disable the account. So I'm going to just give a test password. All right. And then basically user must change password at next log on is usually enabled for the user. So now we have created the user. Now keep in mind that as you are creating this user for this…

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