Net User Command for Windows Server 2012 (R2)

The net user command is command usually used to add, remove, enable or disable
user account and reset Windows password on computer, which applies to Windows
server 2012(R2)/ 2008(R2)/2003(R2)/2000 and Windows client operational systems.
Basic net command prompt structure is like the following. All of the specific
commands are produced based on this command structure.

net user [username [password | *] [/add] [options]] [/domain]]

[username [/delete] [/domain]] [/help] [/?]

 username: User account name you have set on your server or you are
preparing to create.
 password: New password set for username.
 *: You can use this option in place of password to force username
original password to be removed, or don't set any password for created
new user account.
 /add: Use the option to add new user account.
 /domain: This option could set user account on domain controller
instead of local computer.
 /delete: The option could help you to delete user account ever set on
your computer.
 options: There are many options you could set for username according
to your demand.
For example, /active: {yes | no} is used to activate or deactivate the specified user
account. And the default setting is to activate user account.
Now based on net user command introduction above, make some changes
on command for server 2012 (R2) domain controller in purpose of:
 Create/add domain user
 Change/reset a domain user password
 Delete/remove domain user
 Disable/enable a domain user
1. Create or add domain User with net user comand
net user [username [password|*] /add / domain
Example: net user iSunshare abc@12345 /add /domain
If you have interest in other ways to create user account in Windows server 2012
(R2), please go to read this:
How to create a local administrator user account on Windows server 2012 (R2)
2. Change or reset domain user password with command
net user [username [password|*] /domain
Example: net user iSunshare Abc12345 /domain
You could see it in above picture. This way is usually used to reset Windows server
domain password when you have admin privileges to access computer or server
2012 (R2).
3. Delete/remove domain user with net user command
net user [username] /delete /domain
Example: net user iSunshare /delete /domain

4. Disable/enable a domain user with following command

  Disable domain user: net user [username] /active: no /domain
Example: net user iSunshare /active: no /domain
 Enable a domain user: net user [username] /activate: yes /domain
Example: net user iSunshare /active: yes /domain
Before you disable domain user, when you type command “net user iSunshare”, you
would see this:

After you run command “net user iSunshare /active: no /domain”, and hen type
“net user iSunshare” and press Enter, you would see this user is disabled.
Above introduced commands are usually used in computer, and easy for even
computer novice. But if you want to try other more complicated command, powerful
technology is needed considering computer safety.

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