It's not always the best idea to create Active Directory users from scratch. Chances are, your company has a standard "template" of attributes that are set for every domain user. If so, why are you ...

Although Active Directory accounts are sometimes manually created using the Active Directory Users and Computers console, it is also possible to create Active Directory accounts through PowerShell.

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...