DOMAIN USER

CREATING USERS

#Domain Administrator privileges is required to create NOT system-level privileges
PS C: > New-ADUser -Name "{user}" -GivenName "{firstName}" -Surname "{lastName}" -SamAccountName "{firstName.MI.lastName}" -UserPrincipalName "{[email protected]}" -Path "CN=Users,DC={domain},DC={com}" -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "{password}" -AsPlainText -Force) -Enabled $true -PasswordNeverExpires $True -Verbose
 * create a user & set initial password

ADDING USERS TO THE LOCAL ADMIN GROUP

PS C:\> net localgroup administrators {Domain}\{user} /add
 * administrators is the group name
 
PS C:\> shutdown -r -t 0
 * the -r flag stands for "restart." It tells the system to restart 
   (rather than shut down completely) after the specified delay.
 * the -t 0: flag specifies the time delay (in seconds) before the shutdown or
   restart occurs.
    - 0 means immediately

ADDING USERS TO THE DOMAIN ADMIN/ANY GROUP

PS C: > Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "Domain Admins" -Members "{firstName.MI.lastName}"
 * add user to domain admin group or any group