Before we begin to talk about user account templates let me tell you some votes about enabling and disabling
user accounts so user accounts can become inactive for different reasons users leave the organization
go to maternity or paternity leave and so forth.
In this case if a user doesn't need access to his or her account for a period you should disable the
account rather than delete it.
Even if a user has left the organization it is a best practice to disable the user account until you
are sure that no one will need it.
This is particularly true if a user has a mailbox on your exchange server.
If you do leave the user for made yes then you also delay the user's mailbox.
You might need to retain the user voicemail and restore and a user account and the associated mailbox
and this.
This is time consuming.
So to disable a user account locate and select the account to an Active Directory administrative center
and then in the task Spain click disable and to enable an account click enable in the task Spain.
Now some words about the user account templates create new users usually involves set and multiple attributes
for the user.
This can be time consuming and tedious especially if you are creating multiple user user templates can
reduce the effort required to create new user accounts.
They also reduce the chance of errors when certain and properties for users.
Most users in a department business unit or or you will share manic common attributes such as group
memberships and home directory allocations in aid it is a user template is simply an account that you
can figure with all the properties that are common to that job role or department.
For example you might create a user recount named sales template that has all the attributes that apply
to your sales people.
Then when your organization Hire or send you a sales person you can copy the template to create the
new account.
Best practices include disabling the template accounts so that no one can use it to assign name and
put in an underscore at the beginning of the name so that the template account is always at the top
of the user list and easier to locate.
Only the most commonly used attributes are copied from the template over to the new user account.
These include group memberships home directories profiles certain slogan scripts log on hours passwords
surgeons department name and manager.
Many a corporate account you must provide the following information for the new account First Name Last
Name Full Name user or log on name and password attributes fields that are not copied from the template
include office phone number a street address and job title
now let's create a user template will expand to datum dot com and then click the sales.
Oh you I'll click the new user right and on the toolbar and in the new object user dialog box I'll enter
the following information and then click Next I'll enter first name.
I'll type under score sales last name.
I'll type template and for user or log on name I'll have sales template.
Now I'll type in password and confirm password fields and I have to clear the user must change password
that next log on checkbox.
Then I'll select the password never expires checkbox and then select the account is disabled checkbox
and then click next and click finish.
Now to configure template properties you have to double click the underscore sales template account
or right click and click properties and in the sales template properties dialog box click the member
of tab and then click add in there select groups dialog box I'll type sales and then click Okay.
So no this template is a member of sales group No I'll click the organisation tab and the department
field I'll type sales to add this account to sales department and in the manager section I'll click
change out in the select user or contact dialog box I'll type Aaron and then click check names and click
okay and the last step I allowed some profile information for this user I'll click the profile tab and
in the user profile section in the log on script filled out type backslash backslash long does this
one backslash net log on backslash log on does bad and then click okay it allowed to log on script for
this particular user.
Now we can create a new user by copying the template so you have to right click the sales template account
and then click copy in the copy object user dialog box type sales in the first name field and type user
in the last name field I'll type sales user in the user log on name field and then click Next I also
have to type in the password to confirm password fields and clear the password never expire checkbox
also I'll clear the account is disabled checkbox select the user must change passwords next log on checkbox
and lan click next and click finish.
Now let's double click the sales user account and then click the member of tab and ensure that the user
is a member of sales group also I'll click the organisation tab to ensure that the department is sales
and the manager is Aaron bool also I'll quickly profile tab ensure that the logon script passes there
and click okay to close the dialog box.
So as you can see you don't have to specify all those details each time you create a new sales person
account and of course you're going to have several Sarge templates for salespeople for I.T. people and
so on.