Active Roles allows you to perform administrative tasks such as create, copy, rename, modify, and delete user accounts in Active Directory. You can also use this tool to unlock accounts, add and remove accounts from groups, and reset user passwords. Active Roles also supports Exchange tasks, such as create, delete, and move user mailboxes.
The following section guides you through the Active Roles console to manage user accounts. You can also perform these tasks using the Active Roles Web Interface.
You can create a user account as follows: in the console tree, right-click the container where you want to add the user account, select New | User, and then follow the instructions in the wizard.
In the wizard, some property labels may be displayed as hyperlinks. In the following figure, these are Full name, Display name, User logon name and User logon name (pre-Windows 2000). The hyperlink indicates that Active Roles enforces certain policy restrictions on the property. To examine policy details, click the hyperlink: the policy information is displayed (see Getting policy-related information earlier in this document).
Figure 4: Creating a user account
The policy information is also displayed whenever you supply a property value that violates a policy restriction. The wizard cannot proceed until you enter an acceptable value.
