Managing Users

User accounts are created and stored as objects in Active Directory™. These user objects represent users and computers. This section defines what users are and how they are used, and explains how to programmatically manage users in Active Directory. This section discusses the following topics:

• Users in Active Directory
• Security Principals
• What is a User?
• Reading a user object
• Creating a user
• Deleting a user
• Enumerating users
• Querying for users
• Moving users
• Managing users on member servers and Windows 2000 Professional