Self Help Guides Create a New User in a Domain
Creating Users & Groups This document is to be used as a guide to creating users and/or groups in a Domain Server environment; 1. Windows Server Domain exists, 2. Administrative access privileges to create users and/or groups. If you have any questions after following these steps, please contact BIZ-LYNX Technology. Steps 1. Log onto the Server computer or computer with the correct username and password ie administrator account. 2. Click on Start and Run and type dsa.msc and click OK as indicated below. This will open the Active Directory Users and Computers Management Console. 3. Expand the domain until you see the organisational unit (folder) where you wish to create the user and/or groups. Organisational Units work like folders used to organise objects and other purposes. A sample is indicated below BIZ-LYNX Technology 2007. Commercial in Confidence Page 2 of 6
4. Left click on the Action Menu item, select New and then User or Group. Creation of a new user will be indicated in the following steps. 5. Enter the Staff members Firstname, Surname and preferred user logon name in the boxes indicated. The username is what will be used to logon to the server with, as indicated below. Click next when completed (leave all other values with the defaults provided). 6. Enter the password that will be used by the user when they log on to the domain from their connected desktop. Try to ensure that a relatively secure password is used (minimum 6 characters with capitals and lowercase characters and numbers). You can de/select the boxes as indicated if you wish. Click next when finished BIZ-LYNX Technology 2007. Commercial in Confidence Page 3 of 6
7. Tick the Create an Exchange if you wish to create an email account for this user (if Microsoft Exchange is installed). Then click next 8. Click finish on the following screen indicated below 9. To change settings for the new user, double left click on their username from the list BIZ-LYNX Technology 2007. Commercial in Confidence Page 4 of 6
10. Select the profile tab. If you have roaming profiles setup (ie a share on the server for the users profile), type the profile path as the fully qualified path to the share. Type %username% at the end to create a folder in the shared folder for this particular users profile. You can also use the home folder to map a drive to a particular shared folder. If you are unsure of these settings check another users profile settings or contact BIZ-LYNX Technology for assistance. 11. Select the member of tab and add the groups that this particular user should be a member of. Ie. Click Add, type the name and click check names then OK 12. These are the basic settings for creating a new user. Please contact BIZ-LYNX Technology for further assistance or other settings. BIZ-LYNX Technology 2007. Commercial in Confidence Page 5 of 6
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