Creating a User Account
One of the most common uses for the Active Directory Users in Computers console is to create new user accounts. To do so, expand the container corresponding to the domain that you are attached to, and select the Users container. When you do, the console's details pane will display all of the user accounts that currently exist in the domain, as shown in Figure A.
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Figure A: Selecting the Users container causes the console to display all of the user accounts in the domain.
Now, right click on the Users container and select the New command from the resulting shortcut menu. When you do, you will see a submenu that gives you the choice of many different types of objects that you can create. Technically, the Users container is just a container and you can put pretty much any type of object in it. It is generally considered bad practice though to store objects other than user objects in the Users container. That being the case, select the User command from the submenu. When you do, you will see the dialog box shown in Figure B.
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Figure B: The New Object – User dialog box allows you to create a new user account.
As you can see in the figure, Windows initially only requires you to enter some very basic information about the user. Although this screen asks for things like first name and last name, these are not technically required. The only piece of information that is absolutely required is the User Logon Name. Although the other fields are optional, I recommend filling them in anyway.
