User Management with Active Directory—Managing User Account Features

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Managing User Account Features

Creating user objects in Active Directory is not difficult. As we have seen, with the right permissions, we can create a basic user account in just a few lines of code.

However, getting user objects to behave like Windows user accounts is a bit more challenging. Windows accounts have many features, such as enabled/disabled status, names and identifications used for security and email, password management, and expiration and lockout status, all of which require more-intimate knowledge of how things work under the hood. The next several sections explore this in detail.