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User account templates

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- When working in a larger enterprise environment, the process of creating user accounts can become quite tedious. Not only do you have many users that you may need to be creating, you'll find yourself creating a lot of users that have similar needs. So for instance, if you hire a customer into a certain department in a certain position, and there's 50 other people in that department with the exact same position, odds are they need the exact same rights and permissions. They need the same access to the same resources, and so it can get quite tedious. Well there is a solution for this, and it's called a user account template. So what we're looking at here is I'm on DC1, and we're in the Active Directory Users Utility, and we're looking at the Customer Service container, so we have our Customer Service users. And I would say that it's pretty common that anybody I hire into the customer service department is going to have the exact same needs as pretty much any other customer service…

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