Adding Windows users to Server 2016

Adding Windows users to Server 2016

This article is for customers setting up their Server 2016 Windows User accounts.

Here we have provided relevant links to different methods of how to accomplish creating Windows users for your specific environment.

Please look at the below links to determine which is a better fit for your use case.




Specific to adding the new Windows users you have created to the RDS group so that Windows will allow remotes connections, see the following link from Microsoft.





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