Creating a Single User


 

User account creation is essential for the user to be able to log in to the Active Directory domain and be able to access the resources in the domain.

 

Procedure:

You have to enter the values for various user attributes based on your requirement and finally click the Create User button. User attributes are grouped under different categories and present as "Tabs" like User Profile, Account Details, Contact details, Exchange Attributes . Choose the required "tab" and enter the appropriate values for the user.

 

Steps:

  1. Click AD Mgmt tab

  2. Click 'Create Single User' link under 'Create Users'. This opens the Create Single User screen.

  3. Specify the values for User Profile attributes.

  4. Select a valid container. You can change the existing container by clicking on 'change'.

  5. You can also create a new container by selecting the tab 'Create New OU' which you find after attempting to 'change' the container. Select the location to create the and name it.

  6. Select the Account Details tab and specify the account properties.

  7. There are different options available for password settings. You can choose any one from 'Randomly generate password', 'Type a password' etc. You can even customize the password settings to your organizational objectives, Link click here for password customization.
    Member of
    :All the groups cannot be set as primary group to users for security reasons. So before applying primary group for users check the authorization. Only Security Global and Security Universal Groups can be set as Primary Group.

  8. Select the Contact Details tab to specify the contact information about the user.

  9. Select the Exchange Server tab to create a external mail enabled user or mailbox enabled user or with no mail. Specify the exchange attributes only if the mailbox is enabled.

  10. External Mail enabled users don't have mail box in the exchange server but mailbox enable users do.

    Choose Mail server and mailbox store while creating mailbox enabled user

    choose Admin groups and give Target SMTP address (Example:"smtp:user@mail1.com; smtp:user@mail2.com")  while creating external mail enabled users. (Note: If you want to create LCS enable user,then you have to configure the LCS attribute using a template and then apply the template during user creation. Currently, you can create LCS enabled users only using templates in ADManager Plus)

  11. Select the Terminal Services and specify the terminal services attributes.

  12. Select the 'Additional Attributes' link to add custom attributes. Enter the exact Attribute name and value Ex: If you wish to have Employee Id Number in user attributes, then enter 'Employee Id Number' as the Attribute name and enter the value. This will add that attribute in to the user account properties and the information can be obtained from Reports.
  13.  After specifying the required details, click Create User.

 

    1. A user can be created by selecting the predefined templates available in the option "selected Template"

    2. By selecting a template, all the properties of the template will be applied to the users being created.

    3. By clicking in 'change' you can change the template from mail enabled users to mailbox enabled users etc.

    4. A set of users with common properties can be created by using the specific template. Link to template creation

 

     

    Ex: If your intention is to create user accounts with mailbox for permanent employees, you can select the template 'MailBox Enabled Users' and start creating accounts. All the users created eventually will bear the same properties.

For details on the user attributes, refer to the Microsoft Documentation here and here.

 

   

Note:

 

  1. To create Mailbox Enabled Users in Exchange 2007, you would require the Exchange Management Console, failing which the legacy Mailbox will be created.

  2. The mandatory parameters for creating a user are the First Name, the Logon Name, SAMaccount Name and the FullName. When the attribute is left blank, the user account will be created with the default values.

  3. Changing domain in middle of things will reset all domain specific attributes.

  4. OWA  - 2 DC Replication. If Mailbox is created in one Domain controller, Out look Web Access contacts other Domain Controller to confirm the mapping,  but do not authenticate.
    The Real Scenario for this is:

     

    1. A Domain May have more than one domain controllers.
    2. Users We will be created  in the first available domain controller in ADManager Plus.
    3. The OWA authenticates a DC for login, if the DC is not the one in which user is created, it will not be recognised about this until it is replicated.

 



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