This lab contains the following exercises:
Exercise 1-3-1 Creating Users Using DSAddEstimated lab time: 20 minutes
Exercise 1-3-1 Creating Users Using DSAddOverview You need to add users to Active Directory, while there are a few ways to complete this task, your Senior Administrator would like you to create a batch file in notepad that can be edited in the future. In this lab you will use notepad to create and execute a batch file to automate the task of adding users.
Completion time 20 minutes
Question 1 What would be the syntax to add an OU named Marketing? dsadd ou “ou=Marketing,dc=contoso77,dc=com”
Question 2 What does the –pwd switch do? How can you make DSadd bring up a prompt asking for the users password?
The –pwd configures a password that the user would provide in order to log into the server. If you’d like a prompt to ask for a password then you should type:-pwd *
Open Active Directory Users and Computer and browse to your Users container. Take a screen shot of the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in that shows the users you created by pressing Alt + Prt Scr, and the paste the resulting image into the Lab1_3_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl + V.
Open Active Directory Users and Computer and browse to your Users container. Take a screen shot of the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in that shows the organizational units you created by pressing Alt + Prt Scr, and the paste the resulting image into the Lab1_3_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl + V.