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12. Right-click the Sales OU and select New ➢ Computer. Type Workstation1 for the name
of the computer. Notice that the pre-Windows 2000 name is automatically populated
and that, by default, the members of the Domain Admins group are the only ones who
can add this computer to the domain. Place a check mark in the Assign This Computer
Account As A Pre-Windows 2000 Computer box and then click OK to create the Com-
puter object.

13. Close the Active Directory Users and Computers tool.

Configuring the User Principal Name
When you log into a domain, your logon name looks like an email address (for example,
[e-mail] ). This is called your user principal name (UPN) . A UPN is the
username followed by the @ sign and the domain name. At the time that the user account is
created, the UPN suffix is generated by default. The UPN is created as userName@Domain
Name , but an administrator can alter or change the default UPN. If your forest has multiple
domains and you need to change the UPN to a different domain, you have that ability.
To change the UPN suffix, in Active Directory Users and Computers, choose a user
and go into their properties. Choose the Attribute Editor tab. Scroll down to the
userPrincipalName attribute and make your changes. These changes then get replicated to
the global catalog.

If your organization has multiple forests set up by a trust, you can't change
the UPN to a domain in the other forest. Global catalogs are used to log on
users. Because UPNs get replicated to the local forest global catalog serv-
ers, you cannot log onto other forests using the UPN.

Using Templates
Now you are going to dive into user templates. User templates allow an Active Directory
administrator to create a default account (for example, template_sales) and use that account
to create all of the other users who match it (all the salespeople).
If you are creating multiple accounts, this can save you a lot of time and resources. For
example, if you need to add 35 new salespeople to your company, you'll create one template
for sales and use a copy of that template for all of the other new accounts. This saves you
the trouble of filling out many of the same fields over and over again. When you copy a
template, some of the information does not get copied over. This is because it is user-spe-
cific information. Here are some of the fields that do not get copied over from a template:
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Name

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Logon Name

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Password

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Email