1. Open Active Directory Users and Computers.
2. In the console tree, right-click the folder in which you want to add a user account.

   Where?

   • Active Directory Users and Computers
   • domain node
   • folder
3. Point to New, and then click User.
4. In First name, type the user's first name.
5. In Initials, type the user's initials.
6. In Last name, type the user's last name.
7. Modify Full name to add initials or reverse order of first and last names.
8. In User logon name, type the user logon name, click the UPN suffix in the drop-down list, and then click Next.

   If the user will use a different name to log on to computers running Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT, then you can change the user logon name as it appears in User logon name (pre-Windows 2000) to the different name.

9. In Password and Confirm password, type the user's password, and then select the appropriate password options.

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• To add a user, you can also click on the toolbar.
• To add a user, you can also copy any previously created user account. For more information, see Related Topics.
• A new user account with the same name as a previously deleted user account does not automatically assume the permissions and group memberships of the previously deleted account because the security ID (SID) for each account is unique. To duplicate a deleted user account, all permissions and memberships must be manually recreated.
• For interoperability with other directory services, you can create an InetOrgPerson user object. To create a new inetOrgPerson, in step three, click InetOrgPerson instead of User. For more information about InetOrgPerson, see User and computer accounts in Related Topics.
• When creating a new user, the full name attribute is created in the FirstName LastName format by default. The full name attribute also governs the display name format that is shown in the global address list. You can change the display name format by using ADSI Edit. If you do so, this will also change the full name format. For more information, see article Q250455, "How to Change Display Names of Active Directory Users" in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
• Windows NT 4.0 and earlier domains allow the use of a period (.) at the end of a user logon name as long as the user logon name does not consist solely of period characters. Windows Server 2003 domains do not allow the use of a period or multiple periods at the end of a user logon name.

1. Open Command Prompt.
2. Type:

   dsadd user UserDN [-samid SAMName] -pwd {Password|*}

Value	Description
UserDN	Specifies the distinguished name of the user object to be added.
SAMName	Specifies the Security Accounts Manager (SAM) name as the unique SAM account name for this user (for example, Linda). If not specified, dsadd will attempt to create the SAM account name using up to the first 20 characters from the common name (CN) value of UserDN.
Pwd	Specifies the password to be used for the user account. If set to *, you are prompted for a user password.

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• To add a user, you can also copy any previously created user account. For more information, see Related Topics.
• A new user account with the same name as a previously deleted user account does not automatically assume the permissions and group memberships of the previously deleted account because the security ID (SID) for each account is unique. To duplicate a deleted user account, all permissions and memberships must be manually recreated.
• To view the complete syntax for this command, and for information on entering more user account information, at a command prompt, type:
  

  dsadd user /?