PowerShell: Create Local User Account - powershell

Question

I need to create a new local user account, and then add them to the local Administrators group. Can this be done in PowerShell?
EDIT:
# Create new local Admin user for script purposes
$Computer = [ADSI]"WinNT://$Env:COMPUTERNAME,Computer"
$LocalAdmin = $Computer.Create("User", "LocalAdmin")
$LocalAdmin.SetPassword("Password01")
$LocalAdmin.SetInfo()
$LocalAdmin.FullName = "Local Admin by Powershell"
$LocalAdmin.SetInfo()
$LocalAdmin.UserFlags = 64 + 65536 # ADS_UF_PASSWD_CANT_CHANGE + ADS_UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD
$LocalAdmin.SetInfo()
I have this, but was wondering if there is anything more PowerShell-esque.

Answer 1

Another alternative is the old school NET USER commands:
NET USER username "password" /ADD
OK - you can't set all the options but it's a lot less convoluted for simple user creation & easy to script up in Powershell.
NET LOCALGROUP "group" "user" /add to set group membership.

Answer 2

As of PowerShell 5.1 there cmdlet New-LocalUser which could create local user account.
Example of usage:
Create a user account
New-LocalUser -Name "User02" -Description "Description of this account." -NoPassword
or Create a user account that has a password
$Password = Read-Host -AsSecureString
New-LocalUser "User03" -Password $Password -FullName "Third User" -Description "Description of this account."
or Create a user account that is connected to a Microsoft account
New-LocalUser -Name "MicrosoftAccount\usr name#Outlook.com" -Description "Description of this account."

Answer 3

Try using Carbon's Install-User and Add-GroupMember functions:
Install-User -Username "User" -Description "LocalAdmin" -FullName "Local Admin by Powershell" -Password "Password01"
Add-GroupMember -Name 'Administrators' -Member 'User'
Disclaimer: I am the creator/maintainer of the Carbon project.

Answer 4

As of 2014, here is a statement from a Microsoft representative (the Scripting Guy):
As much as we might hate to admit it, there are still no Windows
PowerShell cmdlets from Microsoft that permit creating local user
accounts or local user groups. We finally have a Desired State
Configuration (DSC ) provider that can do this—but to date, no
cmdlets.

Answer 5

Import-Csv C:\test.csv |
Foreach-Object {
NET USER $ _.username $ _.password /ADD
NET LOCALGROUP "group" $_.username /ADD
}
edit csv as username,password
and change "group" for your groupname
:) worked on 2012 R2

Answer 6

$sec_pass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "SomePasword" -AsPlainText -Force
New-LocalUser -Name username -FullName username -PasswordNeverExpires -Password $sec_pass
Add-LocalGroupMember -Group Administrators -Member username