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Function

Creates a new user in the Active Directory. The new user will be mailbox-enabled. This means a mailbox for this new user will be created on the specified Exchange server in the specified storage group.

Deployment

This action is typically used as core part of a script designed to create users with a mailbox. In such a script this is usually the first major action invoked. After creating the account, the script usually continues by invoking actions to create home directories, home shares, group memberships, etc.

Properties

Property Name Description Typical setting Remarks

Database name

This parameter specifies which Exchange database will contain the new user's mailbox. Mailbox Database EXCHSERVER/Mailbox Database EXCHSERVER/First Storage GroupMailbox Database

The Database parameter specifies a mailbox database on an Exchange server. If there are multiple Exchange server, make sure to include the servername in this parameter in order to get the right database. If there are multiple storage groups, specify the storage group as well in this parameter.

Name

This parameter specifies the name of the new user. This is the name that appears in Active Directory Users and Computers as the common name. This is also the user name that appears in Recipient Properties on the User Information tab.

John Smith

The Name parameter specifies the name of the account. This is the same attribute as the 'Name' attribute of an account in Active Directory.

Password

The password parameter specifies the initial password for the newly created user. Note that the password must meet password complexity requirements of the domain.

test123

To create the same password for all users you can specify the password here directly. You can also read the password from an input file.

User principal name

The 'User principal name' parameter specifies the user principal name (UPN) for this mailbox. This is the logon name for the user. The UPN consists of a user name and a suffix. Typically the suffix is the domain name where the user account resides.

[email protected]

The UPN is the preferred login name for Active Directory users. Users should be using their UPN to log on to the domain. The UPN has the format [email protected], where account_name is the UPN prefix and domain.com is the UPN suffix. The UPN Prefix is usually chosen to be the same as the SAM-Account-Name. Typically the name contained in %UserName% is generated by the name generation algorithm.

108 Organizational unit

The 'Organizational unit' parameter specifies the container where the user will be created. Specify the organizational unit with the domain name.

Tools4ever/Users

Specify the path of the organizational unit (OU) or container relative to the domain. To specify OU's in OU's, use the full path relative to the domain, separated by slashes: OU/ChildOU. Examples: Tools4ever/students or Tools4ever/students/group1.

Alias

Optional value. The alias (mail nickname) of the user's new mailbox. The alias can be a combination of characters separated by a period with no intervening spaces. Do not use special characters in the alias. If not specified, the alias will be generated automatically.

JSmith

Display name

Optional value. The display name of the new user created with this mailbox. The display name is the name that appears in the Exchange Management Console under Recipient Configuration. The Display Name also appears in Active Directory Users and Computers on the user Properties General Tab.

John Smith If not set, the display name will be set _{with the 'Name' attribute of this action.}

Domain controller

Optional value. The name of the domain controller used to write this configuration change to Active Directory. Use the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the domain controller.

EXCHSERVER.tools4ever.com..

If a new account is created in a domain with multiple domain controllers, at first, the account will only be available at the domain controller where it is created. When the domain has synchronized all domain controllers in the domain, the account will be available at each domain controller. Until that time, if you want to edit a just created user account, you should specify the same domain controller in the 'Edit mailbox (Exchange 2007)' action.

First name Optional value: The first name _{of the user account.} John

Initials Optional value: The initials of _{the user account.} F

Last name Optional value: The last name _{of the user account.} Smith

Reset password on next logon

Optional value. If the 'Reset password on next logon' parameter is set to 'Yes', the user must change the password at the next logon.

109 SamAccountName

Optional value. This parameter specifies the logon name used to support clients and servers running older versions of the operating system. This attribute must be less than 20 characters to support older clients. If not specified, Active Directory will create a SamAccountName

automatically, based on the user principal name.

JohnSmith

Output Properties

When the action is run, the actual value of the properties are determined at run time, and the action is executed using these values. Generally these values are not stored for later usage.

By default the following properties are saved in a variable for usage in other scripts. Properties that are exported are shown with an image with a green arrow in the properties list.

Property Description Default variable name Remarks

Alias The alias (mail nickname) of the

user's new mailbox. Distinguished

name

Optional value. This parameter returns the distinguished name of the new user mailbox. Exchange GUID

Optional value. This parameter returns the Exchange GUID of the new mailbox

Legacy Exchange DN

Optional value. This parameter returns the Legacy Exchange Distinguished Name of the new mailbox.

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