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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:
Click AD Mgmt tab
Click 'Create Single User' link under 'Create Users'. This opens the Create Single User screen.
Specify the values for User Profile attributes.
Select a valid container. You can change the existing container by clicking on 'change'.
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.
Select the Account Details tab and specify the account properties.
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.
Select the Contact Details tab to specify the contact information about the user.
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.
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)
Select the Terminal Services and specify the terminal services attributes.
User creation by Template:
A user can be created by selecting the predefined templates available in the option "selected Template"
By selecting a template, all the properties of the template will be applied to the users being created.
By clicking in 'change' you can change the template from mail enabled users to mailbox enabled users etc.
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.
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