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Active Directory - User Creation

First, lets confirm we've successfully added the Employee VMs to the domain. Navigate to Windows Administrative Tools ---> Active Directory Users and Computers ---> your domain ---> Computers:

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  • Here, you can see I have 4 Computers connected. Lets move on to creating a User.

Navigate to Users and right click and select New ---> User

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Create a User. I'll create 4 Users in the following manner:

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The following screen will ask you to make a password. Here, you can set initial password policies. These can be configured now, or changed later:

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For simplicity, I'm going to keep the log in credentials as follows:

  • Username: Employee#
  • Password: User!23

Your User Object will be created:

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My 4 Users:

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Test

Now, lets see if it worked! Start one of your Employee VMs and try to log in:

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