User Management

Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2

You can use the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell to manage users in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in Windows Server 2008 R2. This section contains topics that explain how to use the Active Directory module to accomplish many of the common tasks that are associated with managing users.

• Modifying an Attribute for Several Users at Once

• Setting a User's Profile Attributes

• Moving a User

• Renaming a User

• Copy a User's Properties

• Finding Locked-Out Users

• Setting a User's Password

• Unlocking a User Account

• Account Lockout and Password Policies

• Enabling and Disabling a User Account

• Creating a UPN Suffix for a Forest

• Locating Disabled User Accounts

• Viewing a User's Managed Objects

• Creating a Large Quantity of Users

• Viewing a User's Group Membership

• Group Membership Removal

• Transferring Group Membership to Another User

• Creating a User

• Preventing a User Password Change

• Requiring a User to Change a Password at Next Logon

• Preventing a User's Password from Expiring

• Setting a User's Account Options

• Setting a User's Account to Expire

• Finding Users Whose Passwords Are About to Expire

• Finding Users Whose Accounts Are About to Expire

• Modifying the Default Display Name

• Creating an inetOrgPerson User

• Change a User Object to an inetOrgPerson Object (or the Reverse)

• Determining a User's Last Logon Time

• Finding Users Who Have Not Logged on Recently