Copy a user account in Server 2003, 2008, 2012

Membership in Account Operators , Domain Admins , or Enterprise Admins , or equivalent, is the minimum required to complete this procedure.

To open Active Directory Users and Computers, click Start , click Control Panel , double-click Administrative Tools , and then double-click Active Directory Users and Computers .

1. To open Active Directory Users and Computers in Windows Server® 2012, click Start , type dsa.msc .
2. In the console tree, click Users .
   Where?
   • Active Directory Users and Computers\ domain node \Users
3. In the details pane, right-click the user account that you want to copy, and then click Copy .
4. In First name , type the user's first name.
5. In Last name , type the user's last name.
6. Modify Full name to add initials or reverse the order of the first and last names.
7. In User logon name , type the user logon name, click the user principal name (UPN) suffix in the drop-down list, and then click Next .
   If the user will use a different name to log on to computers running Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT, you can change the user logon name as it appears in User logon name (pre-Windows 2000) to the different name.
8. In Password and Confirm password , type the user's password, and then select the appropriate password options.
   If the user account from which the new user account was copied was disabled, click Account is disabled to enable the new account.