Create New User Accounts using the New-ADUser Cmdlet

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What is the PowerShell cmdlet used to create user objects? It’s the New-ADUser cmdlet, which is included in the Active Directory PowerShell module built into Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2/2012 and above. Therefore, the first thing we need to do is enable the AD module:

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

Now let’s take a closer look at cmdlet New-ADUser. We can get its full syntax by running the following command:

Get-Command New-ADUser –Syntax

When you know the syntax, it’s easy to add users to Active Directory:

New-ADUser B.Johnson

Now let’s check whether the user was added successfully by listing all Active Directory users using the following script:

Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties samAccountName | select samAccountName

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