Active Directory: Managing Users Accounts and Properties

Name: Active Directory: Managing Users Accounts and Properties
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Active Directory: Managing Users Accounts, Profiles, Attributes, Properties

Created byVitalii Shumylo

Last updated 9/2025

English

What you'll learn

Managing user accounts
Creating user accounts
Configuring user account attributes
Creating user profiles
User account templates

Course content

2 sections • 23 lectures • 2h 40m total length

Managing user accounts3:12
Creating user accounts6:41
Knowledge Check: User Accounts8:01
Configuring user account attributes7:46
Knowledge Check: Configuring user account attributes8:21
Demonstration: Managing user accounts3:16
Demonstration: Creating user profiles6:16
Knowledge Check: Creating user profiles9:23
Learn how to manage user profiles and folder redirection with Active Directory, covering roaming profiles, profile path settings, home folders, and drive mappings using Group Policy.
Demonstration: User account templates7:47
Create and use Active Directory user templates to quickly provision new accounts with shared attributes, then copy templates for sales or IT roles while disabling template accounts.
Knowledge Check: User account templates7:18
Learn how to manage Active Directory user accounts by using templates, disabling vs deleting, copying attributes, and verifying group memberships to boost efficiency and security.

Using Windows PowerShell cmdlets to manage user accounts3:51
Master Windows PowerShell cmdlets to create, modify, delete, unlock, enable, or disable Active Directory user accounts, set passwords and expiration, and manage properties like department and home directory.
PowerShell Key Concepts16:07
Using Windows PowerShell to create users11:36
Use Windows PowerShell to create and manage Active Directory user and computer accounts with New-ADUser, setting mandatory properties, a password, enabling the account, and optional attributes.
Knowledge Check: Using Windows PowerShell to create users6:50
Using Windows PowerShell for bulk users operations7:08
Knowledge Check: Using Windows PowerShell for bulk users operations4:44
Using Windows PowerShell to modify users' properties9:16
Knowledge Check: Using Windows PowerShell to modify users' properties6:17
Using Windows PowerShell to add users to groups0:59
Using Windows PowerShell to modify users' properties. Part27:52
Using Windows PowerShell to enable/move users8:31
Knowledge Check: Using Windows PowerShell to enable/move users5:54
Using Windows PowerShell to delete users3:16
Windows Server Administration Practice Test

Requirements

Familiarity with general Windows and Microsoft server administration and technologies

Description

This course is aimed to IT Pros and is supposed to give the viewer the information they need to know to get started with Active Directory (AD DS) and its key concepts. The goal is to provide coverage of AD DS users.

The course is targeted to help learning Active Directory and do your job more efficiently.

After completing this course, you will be able to describe:

Create user accounts.

Configure user account attributes.

Manage user accounts.

Create user profiles.

Manage inactive and disabled user accounts.

Explain user account templates.

Use user account templates to manage accounts.

Powershell Key Concepts

Perform all these operations with Powershell

Who this course is for:

IT Specialists
System Administrators
Active Directory Administrators
Power Users
Automation Specialists

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Course content

Managing user accounts10 lectures • 1hr 8min

Using Windows PowerShell cmdlets to manage user accounts13 lectures • 1hr 32min

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