Creating User Accounts in Windows Server 2012 R2

Create User Account:

This post is a part of the series Integrating SharePoint 2013 with OAM 11G R2PS2 (Windows Server 2012 R2)

Why this is important to create user account before-hand moving to install the Active Directory?
Answer:->

• With this user account we can log in to the system. This user account will become part of the AD on successful setup. Thus we have an account to log into the system in both success & failure case.

Let's Start setting up the User Account:-

1) Start Menu -> Control Panel -> User Accounts. Select User Accounts Option

 2) Select Manage User Accounts.

3) User Accounts Menu will be opened. Under this Select Advance Tab.

Under Advance Tab, select Advanced Option.

3) Local User and Groups Manager will be opened.

Select "Users Option" visible in the tree.

 4) Now in the middle column where the users are listed, do right click and select New User option. This will open a form which needs to be filled with the user details.

Remember don't select "User must change password option", untick the selection and than select "Password never expires" Option. Now press Create Button.

Your user gets created.... :-)

5) Giving Admin rights to the user: The user created above is not having the admin rights.
To provide admin rights to the user, do as following:

a) Open User Accounts Options (Start Menu -> Control Panel-> User Accounts -> Manage User Accounts)

b) You will find your created user entry here, now double click the user. It will open user properties.

c) Now select Group Membership tab.

By Default the user is created with standard rights. Now we need to change the same to admin.

d) Select the Administrator Option. And press OK Button.

e) Now you will see that the user properties is changed from standard to administrator.

f) Add the created user to the host:-
On your Windows Server Desktop you will see “Allow user to access host option” -> Click this & you will prompted with uid entry.

Enter:  <machine_name>\<created_user_name>
Eg: slc01att\bunty

Without adding user to the system, you won't be allowed to take remote of the machine.

Test:- To Log-in into the system with the created user credentials 

Log-off from the system and log-in again but this time with new user credentials just created above.You should be able to log-in
Syntax -> hostname\username followed by password
Eg: slc01att\bunty -> Password "abcd123!"


Now we proceed to Install & Configure Active Directory on Windows Server 2012 R2.

Enjoy :-)