Creating The User Accounts

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Domain user accounts are created using the Active Directory Users And Computers console. To use either windows 7 configuration tool, you must have administrator privileges. This lesson takes you step-by-step through creating user accounts and setting user account properties.
Creating Domain User Accounts
Use the Active Directory Users And Computers console to create a new domain user account. When you create the domain user account, the user logon name is by default associated with the domain in which you are creating the domain user account. However, you can associate a user logon name with any domain in which you have permissions to create domain user accounts. You must select the container in which to create the new account. Although you can create the domain user account in the Users container by default, you should add actual users to a custom OU. OUs are discussed in detail in Chapter 6, "Implementing an OU Structure."
To create domain user accounts, complete the following steps:
1.Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory ...
... Users And Computers.
2.Click the domain, right-click the OU in which the domain user account will be stored, point to New, and then click User.
3.In the New Object-User dialog box, shown in 70-680, set the domain user name options as described in Table 7-3. Click Next.
Type the user's first name. An entry in this, the Initials, or the Last Name box is required.
Type the user's initials, if applicable. An entry in this, the First Name, or the Last Name box is required. Do not use a period after the last initial; a period is entered automatically.
Type the user's last name. An entry in this, the Initials, or the First Name box is required.
No action is necessary, because the user's complete name is entered automatically from information you entered in the First Name, Initials, and Last Name boxes. The name must be unique within the OU or container where you create the user account. The full name is the one displayed in the OLI or container where the user account is located in the directory.
The User Logon Name box is accompanied by a domain name list. The user logon name and the domain name together uniquely iden?tify the user throughout the entire network. Based on your naming conventions, type the user's unique logon name in the box (on the left). The logon name is required and in combination with the domain name on the right must be unique within the domain. The current domain name is entered automatically from the list (on the right) of domains for which you have the appropriate permissions, but you may select another instead.
No action is necessary because an entry is entered automatically. The entry is the user's unique logon name that is used to log on from earlier versions of Windows, such as Microsoft Windows NT 4 or Windows NT 3.5.1. An entry is required, and must be unique within the domain. If you entered any of the following: mcsa in the User Logon Name box, a message appears, reminding you that these characters are not valid for pre-Windows 2000 systems and that the characters will be replaced with the underscore symbol for the pre-Windows 2000 user logon.