Question

I’ve installed PowerShell recently and one of the first things I started looking for was how to create a new user. After looking for some time I still haven’t found this. I have a little experience in bash on linux and find it very effective. Creating users there is trivial. Is there an easy\built-in way to create a local user with PowerShell?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You can use the localhost’s ADSI:

function create-account ([string]$accountName = 'testuser') {       $hostname = hostname       $comp = [adsi] 'WinNT://$hostname'      $user = $comp.Create('User', $accountName)       $user.SetPassword('Password1')       $user.SetInfo()    }