Topic: Creating User Objects You are a network administrator who is in the proce

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Topic: Creating User Objects You are a network administrator who is in the process of building an Active Directory network for a company called Fabrikam, Inc., and you have to create user objects for the 75 users in the Inside Sales department. You have already created the fabrikam.com domain and an OU called Inside Sales for this purpose. The Human Resources department has provided you with a list of the users’ names and has instructed you to create the account names by using the first initial and the last name. Each user object must also have the value Inside Sales in the Department property and Fabrikam, Inc. in the Company property. Using the first name in the list, Oliver Cox, as an example, which of the following command-line formats would enable you to create the 75 user objects, with the required property values. Explain your selection. · dsadd “Oliver Cox” –company “Fabrikam, Inc.” –dept “Inside Sales” · dsadd user CN=Oliver Cox,CN=Inside Sales,DC=fabrikam,DC=com –company Fabrikam, Inc. –dept Inside Sales · dsadd –company “Fabrikam, Inc.” –dept “Inside Sales” “CN=Oliver Cox,CN=Inside Sales,DC=fabrikam,DC=com” · dsadd user “CN=Oliver Cox,CN=Inside Sales,DC=fabrikam,DC=com” –company “Fabrikam, Inc.” –dept “Inside Sales”

Explanation / Answer

The above given is shell code for adding user to DC:

Imp points:

CN refers to groups in DC for contacts, users, computers etc.

-dept -company etc are all additional fields for storing user relation information for department and company -these are not related to groups; only CN refers to what groups the user is to be in.

Below is some explanation on what details are provided:

dsadd “Oliver Cox”
–company “Fabrikam, Inc.” –dept “Inside Sales”
Add user name Oliver Cox
- Company information of the contact
-Dept - department of the contact

dsadd user CN=Oliver Cox,CN=Inside Sales,DC=fabrikam,DC=com –company Fabrikam, Inc. –dept

Inside Sales
user account named OCox in the top-level OU named Service Dept in the fabrikam.com domain

-Name is Oliver Cox
under Inside Sales group
FOr fabrikam.com domain controller
company information as Fabrikam Inc

dsadd –company “Fabrikam, Inc.” –dept “Inside Sales” “CN=Oliver Cox,CN=Inside

Sales,DC=fabrikam,DC=com”
add user command
under Inside Sales, Oliver Cox groups
For fabrikam.com domain controller
company information as Fabrikam Inc
dept information as "Inside Sales"

dsadd user “CN=Oliver Cox,CN=Inside Sales,DC=fabrikam,DC=com” –company “Fabrikam, Inc.” –dept

“Inside Sales”

add user command
under Inside Sales, Oliver Cox groups
For fabrikam.com domain controller
company information as Fabrikam Inc
dept information as "Inside Sales"

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