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10. In the right pane of Active Directory Users and Computers, right-click the
_Sales Template
user and click
Copy
. Type
Sales
in the First name text box,
Person1
in the Last name text
box, and
salesperson1
in the User logon name text box, and then click
Next
.
11. Type
Password01
in the Password and Confirm password text boxes. Click to clear the
Account is disabled
check box, and then click
Next
. Click
Finish
.
12. Right-click
Sales Person1
and click
Properties
. Arrange the Properties dialog box so that you
can see the _Sales Template user in Active Directory Users and Computers. Right-click
_Sales
Template
and click
Properties
. Arrange the two Properties dialog boxes side by side so that
you can compare them (see Figure 5-4). Make sure the General tab is visible in both.
Figure 5-4
Comparing user properties
13. Notice that no fields in the template's General tab were copied to the Sales Person1 user.
Click the
Address
tab in both Properties dialog boxes, and notice that the Street field wasn't
copied. Click the
Organization
tab, and notice that the Job Title field wasn't copied.
14. Click the
Member Of
tab in both Properties dialog boxes, and notice that the group mem-
bership
was
copied.
15. Click
Cancel
to close both Properties dialog boxes, and leave Active Directory Users and
Computers open.
User templates are useful for creating several users with a number of similar attributes.
Unfortunately, some attributes aren't copied to the new user account, such as the Description,
Office, Telephone number, Web page, and other fields. In addition, if one of the attributes that
is copied changes, quite a bit of manual configuration might be required. However, there's a way
to work around these limitations, discussed in the following section.
You can use the Active Directory Schema snap-in to change whether an
attribute is copied when the user is copied. Load the snap-in into an
MMC, double-click the attribute, and click the “Attribute is copied when
duplicating a user” check box. In Activity 4-6, you registered the DLL
needed to use this snap-in.
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