Add users to ESX using New-VMHostAccount cmdlet with AD Authentication enabled Hosts

[munizaba]

In our VMware environment all ESX hosts have Active Directory Authentication with ESX Server Enabled.

Basically we did ssh to all ESX and run # esxcfg-auth --enablead --addomain=mydomain.com --addc=DC1.mydomain.com

To add the user we run # useradd ConsoleUser As per

This is working great; admins are using same account and password to log-on to VC end ESX host, however when we need to change or add new user we have to log-on to 30 ESX Hosts and manually add or modify local account.

I want to ask is it possible to use new cmdlet New-VMHostAccount to modify existing ESX account or add new account in this scenario.

[yboychev]

For editing existing accounts you can use the combination Get-VmHostAccount -User MyUser| Set-VmHostAccount when connected directly to ESX.

For more details take a look at Get-Help Set-VmHostAccount -full.

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