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shadranok
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Oct 18, 2022

New_LocalUser not working

I'm trying to use powershell 7 to create a new local user on my computer and I always get an error message. PowerShell 7.2.6 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. https://aka.ms/powershell Type 'he...
  • Harm_Veenstra's avatar
    Oct 24, 2022
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    The `New-LocalUser` cmdlet creates a local user account. This cmdlet creates a local user account or a local user account that is connected to a Microsoft account.

    > [!NOTE] > The Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts module is not available in 32-bit PowerShell on a 64-bit > system

    Have the same issue, does work in PowerShell v5. It does work after running import-module microsoft.powershell.localaccounts -UseWindowsPowerShell (Effectively running it in PowerShell v5 mode in PowerShell v7)

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