Comments on: How to create Windows user with Powershell?

By: kiran

kiran — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:38:58 +0000

you might want to add an additional if statement at the end to actually verify if the user got created or not.

I ran this today on localhost and got an error and still got the output user created which obviously wasnt right.

function create-user($username, $password)
{

$computer = [ADSI]“WinNT://localhost”
foreach ($user in $computer.psbase.children)
{
if ($user.Name -eq $username)
{
Write-Host $user.Name “already exist.”
Return
}
}
$user_obj = $computer.Create(“user”, “$username”)
$user_obj.Put(“description”, “$username”)
$user_obj.SetInfo()
$user_obj.SetPassword($password)
$user_obj.SetInfo()
$user_obj.psbase.invokeset(“AccountDisabled”, “False”)
$user_obj.SetInfo()
if ($user.Name -eq $username)
{
Write-Host “$username created.”
Return
}
else
{
Write-host “Error Creating $username”
}
}

By: admin

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:14:09 +0000

Hello Herry,

You need to have admin privileges on all remote servers. You can set same username and password on all servers or you can join them to an active directory. Using PSexec or Remote Powershell are other options.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:02:08 +0000

Hello Herry,

I wrote a script to create user remote host. I’ll try to post you today, it’s on office pc.

But you can try Remote Powershell for all scripts. Just google for New-PSSession and Enter-PSSession.

See you.

By: Heriyanto

Heriyanto — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:13:12 +0000

what about to create user on remote host (server)?
i’ve tried to replace the
$computer = [ADSI]“WinNT://localhost”
to
$computer = [ADSI]“WinNT://192.168.1.10″ but i got this error :
Exception calling “SetInfo” with “0″ argument(s): “Logon failure: unknown username or bad password. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007052E)”
At line:14 char:26
+ $user_obj.SetInfo <<<< ()
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CatchFromBaseAdapterMethodInvokeTI

please help me!

thanks.