Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Active directory users, OU and Groups creation

Active directory users, OU and Groups creation
1.       First we have to create OU for Alberta Head office
Procedure for creating Alberta OU
a.       Open server manager
b.      Go to Roles -> Active directory Domain service-> Active Directory Users and computers -> test.local(Right click)->New->Organization Unit
Give name Alberta and create
2.       Now make sub OU under Alberta OU
ABUsers and ABComputers
ABUsers for all Alberta users
ABComputers for all Alberta computers
Create sub groups in ABComputers
ITcomputers
StandardComputers
TestComputers

3.       Create one more OU called IT for IT staff of Alberta
Note: IT is not a sub OU of Alberta its Individual OU
4.       Now Create add users to Abusers OU
Procedure for Creating Users:
2 procedures
1.       Creating users using script
Open note pad
dsadd user "cn=%1, ou=INSERTYOUROUHERE, dc=YOURDOMAIN, dc=comORWHATEVERYOURSUFFIXIS" -fn %2 -ln %3 -pwd P@ssw0rd -mustchpwd yes
Type this script and save it as .bat file
Note: - if you have sub OU fist use sub OU and then main OU in script
Now open command prompt and go to the path where you save the batch file then type batchFileName UserName FirstName Lastname

2.       Manually creating users
Right click on ABUsers OU ->New -> User
Give username, Firstname, Lastname, password, select password must change for first login
Users for ABUsers OU

Name
First Name
Last Name
User name
Group
Rafi Mohammad
Rafi
Mohammad
Mrafi
IT
Ravi Kumar
Ravi
Kumar
Kravi
IT
Shane Warne
Shane
Warne
wshane
SalesUsers
Tony Khory
Tony
Khory
ktony
SalesUsers
George Saddeh
George
Saddeh
sgeorge
SalesManagers
Shakeel Ahmad
Shakeel
Ahmad
ashakeel
SalesManagers
Doug Windover
Doug
Windover
wdoug
AccountsUsers
Tamara Barton
Tamara
Barton
btamara
AccountsUsers
Dana Dobiasova
Dana
Dobiasova
ddana
AccountsManagers
Shifali Jain
Shifali
Jain
jshifali
AccountsManagers
Guest User1
Guest
User1
Guser1
Guests
Guest User2
Guest
User2
Guser2
Guests
Guest User3
Guest
User3
Guser3
Guests
Linsey Martin
Linsey
Martin
mlinsey
Executives
Joseph Catricala
Joseph
Catricala
cjoseph
Executives
Linda Murphy
Linda
Murphy
mlinda
HR
Lisa Hagarty
Lisa
Hagarty
hlisa
HR
Renwick Babwah
Renwick
Babwah
brenwick
Warehouse
Marwan Albedi
Marwan
Albedi
amarwan
Warehouse
Gouse Shaik
Gouse
Shaik
Sgouse
OperationsManagers
Satish Agarval
Satish
Agarval
asatish
OperationsManagers
Ruby Joseph
Ruby
Joseph
jruby
OperationsUsers
Visali Jain
Visali
Jain
jvisali
OperationsUsers

5.       Now create Groups
Executives
IT
AccountsUsers
AccoutnsManagers
SalesUsers
SalesManagers
OperationsUsers
OperationsManagers
Warehouse
HR
Guests

Procedure for creating groups
a.       Right click on subOU ABUsers->New->Group
b.      Give Group name and create it
6.       Now add user to Groups as per above table
Ex:-  Shane Warne belongs to SalesUsers group
         George Saddeh belongs to SalesManagers

Procedure for adding user to group
a.       Select the user right click -> Add to group-> give group name and add it