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Reputation: 2464

Creating a user in the standard users folder using command line (Windows Server 2012)

Information

Let's say that I have a server on the domain "domain.com". In the active directory, I have the OU Finance, in that OU, I have the OU Users.

If I want to create a user in this folder, using command line it would be:

dsadd user CN=user01,OU=Users,OU=Finance,DC=domain,DC=com

This is excluding the parameters of course.

Question

Every server has a "Users" folder, which contains the standard-users such as the Administrator.

How would I create a user in that standard folder, using the commandline? And how would I add that user to a group that is inside of the "Built-in" folder?

Let's say that the username would be user01 and the group "Administrators"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 682

Answers (1)

Gabriel Luci
Gabriel Luci

Reputation: 40968

The trick is that the built-in Users folder isn't an OU, it's a "Container" (i.e. the objectClass is "container" rather than "organizationalUnit"). So the distinguished name of that container is prefixed by CN= rather than OU=.

So try this:

dsadd user CN=user01,CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com

Upvotes: 1

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