Creating and Managing User Objects

In this practice, you will create three user objects. You will then modify properties of those objects.

Exercise 1: Create User Objects 1. Log on to Server01 as an administrator. 2. Open Active Directory Users And Computers. 3. Select the Employees OU. 4. Create a user account with the following information, ensuring that you use a strong password:
Text Box Name Type First Name Dan Last Name Holme User Logon Name Dan.Holme User Logon Name (Pre-Windows 2000) Dholme

5. Create a second user object with the following properties:

Property Type First Name Hank Last Name Carbeck User Logon Name Hank.Carbeck User Logon Name (Pre-Windows 2000) Hcarbeck

6. Create a user object for yourself, following the same conventions for user logon names as you did for the first two objects.

Exercise 2: Modify User Object Properties 1. Open the Properties dialog box for your user object. 2. Configure the appropriate properties for your user object on the General, Address, Profile, Telephones, and Organization tabs. 3. Examine the many properties associated with your user object, but do not change any other properties yet. 4. Click OK when finished.

Exercise 3: Modify Multiple User Objects Properties 1. Open Active Directory Users And Computers and navigate to the Contoso.com Employees OU. Select the Employees OU in the tree pane, which will list the user objects you created in Exercise 1 in the details pane. 2. Click Dan Holmes user object. 3. Hold the CTRL key and click Hank Carbecks user object. 4. Click the Action menu, and then click Properties. 5. Notice the difference between the Properties dialog box here, and the more extensive properties dialog box you explored in Exercise 2. Examine the properties that are available when multiple objects are selected, but do not modify any properties yet. 6. Configure the following properties for the two user objects:
Property Page Property Type General Description General Telephone NumberGeneral Web Page Address StreetAddress CityAddress State/ProvinceAddress ZIP/Postal CodeOrganization TitleOrganization Company Taught me everything I needed to know about Windows Server 2003 (425) 555-0175 http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/ One Microsoft WayRedmondWashington98052AuthorMicrosoft Press

7. Click OK when you finish configuring the properties. 8. Open the properties of the object Dan Holme. 9. Confirm that the properties you configured in step 6 did, in fact, apply to the object. Click OK when you are finished. 10. Click Dan Holmes user object. 11. Hold the CTRL key and click Hank Carbecks user object. Click the Action menu. 12. Notice that the Reset Password command is not available when you have selected more than one user object. What other commands are not available when multi-selecting? Experiment by selecting one user, opening