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

English [Auto],

What you'll learn

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

Course content

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

Managing user accounts3:12
Manage user accounts in Active Directory by configuring attributes, creating profiles, and using templates to streamline onboarding, with guidance on roaming profiles and distinguishing disabled versus locked accounts.
Creating user accounts6:41
Create unique user accounts in Active Directory to authenticate to the domain and access resources, using standard naming conventions, with a unique logon name across the domain and forest.
Knowledge Check: User Accounts8:01
Learn how Active Directory Domain Services user accounts authenticate users, grant access to resources, and use unique identifiers like the user principal name, with creation tools and naming best practices.
Configuring user account attributes7:46
Configure active directory user attributes, including logon hours, logon to computers, expiration, password options, smartcard and delegation, within the schema using AD administration tools.
Knowledge Check: Configuring user account attributes8:21
Explore configuring and managing Active Directory user account properties, including logon hours, password options, delegation, group memberships, and account expiration for domain resources.
Demonstration: Managing user accounts3:16
See how to use the Active Directory administrative center to create, delete, and move user accounts and configure user attributes such as department and group membership.
Demonstration: Creating user profiles6:16
Demonstrates configuring user profiles with local and roaming paths, logon scripts, and home folders using group policy. Learn to redirect folders and map network drives for multi-device access.
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
Master core PowerShell concepts, including pipelines, aliases, and variables, and learn to navigate directories, use Get-Command and Get-Help, and create scripts for Active Directory user management.
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
Learn Active Directory user management with Windows PowerShell, including creating users with new add user command, name parameter, default disabled state, path for organizational unit, and retrieving all properties.
Using Windows PowerShell for bulk users operations7:08
Master bulk user creation in Active Directory with PowerShell, generating lab users, importing CSP data, and populating display name, given name, samAccountName, user principal name, email, and phone.
Knowledge Check: Using Windows PowerShell for bulk users operations4:44
Demonstrate bulk user creation in Active Directory using PowerShell, CSV imports, and foreach loops to create accounts dynamically and populate key attributes.
Using Windows PowerShell to modify users' properties9:16
Learn how to modify Active Directory user properties with Windows PowerShell, including searching users, viewing attributes, and updating descriptions and other attributes in bulk.
Knowledge Check: Using Windows PowerShell to modify users' properties6:17
Practice a knowledge check on updating Active Directory user attributes with PowerShell, including using the Attribute Editor and retrieving all properties.
Using Windows PowerShell to add users to groups0:59
Use Windows PowerShell to mirror an administrator's security groups by listing them and adding James to each. James becomes a member of five security groups.
Using Windows PowerShell to modify users' properties. Part27:52
Using Windows PowerShell to enable/move users8:31
Bulk enable and disable Active Directory accounts with Windows PowerShell. Use Get-ADUser, Enable-ADAccount, Disable-ADAccount, and Move-ADObject, with DN or SAMAccountName inputs and department filters.
Knowledge Check: Using Windows PowerShell to enable/move users5:54
Perform bulk Active Directory management with Windows PowerShell by enabling and disabling accounts, querying users, and moving objects through pipelines using Get-Content and Move-ADObject.
Using Windows PowerShell to delete users3:16
delete Active Directory user accounts with Windows PowerShell by specifying the user identity and handling the confirmation prompt.

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

Practice Tests0

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