User Management Page

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The User Management page on the Users and Groups tab is where you can add, view, and modify user accounts in Windows EBS.

For more information about managing user accounts in Windows EBS, see the Microsoft Web site (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108928).

Page layout

Item Details

Results pane

Lists the user accounts in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).

Details pane

For the user account that is selected in the results pane, shows detailed user information, account status, and AD DS groups that the user belongs to.

Tasks pane

General user management tasks. For more information, see the User Management Tasks section later in this document.

User management tasks for the user account that is selected in the results pane. For more information, see the <User Account> Tasks section later in this document.

Working with the data

  • To refresh the page: On the View menu, click Refresh.
  • To group the objects in the results pane: On the View menu, click Group By, and then click a field name. To ungroup the objects, on the View menu, click Group By, and then click Ungroup.
  • To sort the objects in the results pane: On the View menu, click Sort By, and then click a field name. Alternatively, click a column heading in the results pane and sort the objects in a field.
  • To customize the arrangement of data in the results pane: On the View menu, click Customize Results View. Then in the Customize the Results View dialog box, select and rearrange the columns.
  • To save the data in the results pane: On the File menu, click Save As CSV.
  • To display a task menu: Right-click an object in the results pane. To start a task, click the task name in the menu.
  • To start the primary task associated with an object: Double-click the object in the results pane.

User Management tasks

Task Details

New user account

Starts the New User Account Wizard to create and configure a user account in Windows EBS.

Choose folder for Documents redirection

Opens the Choose Documents Redirection Folder dialog box to specify a shared folder where the users' Documents folders can be redirected.

<User Account> tasks

Task Details

Change user account properties

Opens the User AccountProperties dialog box.

Reset user account password

Opens the Reset User Account Password dialog box.

Disable user account

For an enabled user account, opens the Disable User Account dialog box to disable access to the network and release the CAL for Windows EBS.

Enable user account

For a disabled user account, opens the Enable User Account dialog box to allow access to the network and assign a CAL for Windows EBS.

Remove user account

Opens the Remove User Account dialog box to confirm that the user account data is deleted from AD DS and Exchange Server.