Create AD user with C#

Question

Does anyone have a code for creating user in the C# net ad? I’m new to C# development and I tried through the codes I saw here and I couldn’t

Answer 1

You can do it with class UserPrincipal. It represents a user of your domain. When you build it you can pass an instance of PrincipalContext. This last class encapsulates the server or domain over which operations (such as user creation) are executed.

This class has a builder that you pass the call ContextType which may have the following values:

• ContextType.ApplicationDirectory
• ContextType.Domain
• ContextType.Machine

That one ContextType represents the storage the main part of. In case of creating a user in AD you would pass ContextType.Domain.

Then you just have to create an instance of UserPrincipal passing the PrincipalContext that you created, set the properties and save. It looks like this:

using (var contextoPrincipal = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain))
{
    using (var usuarioPrincipal = new UserPrincipal(contextoPrincipal))
    {
        usuarioPrincipal.SamAccountName = <Nome de Usuario Aqui>;
        usuarioPrincipal.EmailAddress = <Email Aqui>;
        usuarioPrincipal.SetPassword(<Senha Aqui>);
        usuarioPrincipal.Enabled = true; // Aqui você ativa essa conta, poderia não ativar, dependendo do caso de uso
        usuarioPrincipal.ExpirePasswordNow();
        usuarioPrincipal.Save();
    }
}

References:

• Question in the OS Creating Active Directory user with password in C#
• Class UserPrincipal in the MSDN
• Class PrincipalContext in the MSDN
• Enumeration ContextType in the MSDN