LKBEN10718: Howto find active directory user information from the command line

Symptom

You need to verify a few user settings

Cause

none

Solution

A quick way to get some user settings is to use the net user command.

net user username /domain

This will deliver information like username, description, some account information, home drive, server profile and all

groups the user belongs to.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.