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Scripts to create users on Windows 10 devices
Some corporate devices might be used by more than one employee. As a result, an administrator might have to create separate user accounts on each device. Manually creating accounts on all the devices is a tedious task. Hexnode lets admins deploy scripts to get the job done.
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Batch Script
- Create user Batch script to create users on Windows net user username password /add 1 net user username password /add
- Batch script to create users on Windows net user username password /add 1 net user username password /add
- Change username
- Change password
- Change account type to Standard
- Change account type to Administrator
- Powershell Script
Batch Script
Create user
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net user username password /add
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net user username password /add |
E.g., To create a user Josh,
Net user Josh “” /add
Change username
You can change the name of the created user account by running the script given below.
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wmic useraccount where name='Administrator' rename 'NewName' |
Replace ‘Administrator’ with the current name of the user and ‘NewName’ with the new name of the user, respectively.
Change password
The following script can be used to change the password for the user account.
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net user Username NewPassword |
Replace “Username” and “NewPassword” with your user’s name and required password.
Change account type to Standard
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net localgroup Administrators "Account Name" /delete |
Replace “Account Name” with your user account name.
Change account type to Administrator
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net localgroup Administrators "Account Name" /add |
Replace “Account Name” with your user account name.
Powershell Script
Create user
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New-LocalUser –Name “username” -NoPassword |
E.g. To create a user Josh,
New-LocalUser –Name “Josh” -NoPassword
Change username
You can change the name of the created user account by running the script given below.
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Rename-LocalUser -Name "Administrator" -NewName "New Name" |
Replace ‘Administrator’ with the current name of the user and ‘NewName’ with the new name of the user, respectively.
Change password
The following script can be used to change the password for the user account.
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$SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "NewPassword" -AsPlainText -Force $UserAccount = Get-LocalUser -Name "Username" $UserAccount | Set-LocalUser -Password $SecurePassword |
Replace “Username” and “NewPassword” with your user’s name and required password.
Change account type to Standard
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Remove-LocalGroupMember -Group "Administrators" -Member "Account Name" |
Replace “Account Name” with your user account name.
Change account type to Administrator
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Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Administrators" -Member "Account Name" |
Replace “Account Name” with your user account name.