# iRedMail Easy: Create AD account for iRedMail

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## Summary

With iRedMail (ad backend), we need two accounts, admin account with all privileges, low-privileged account with read-only privilege. In this tutorial, we will show you how to create account in AD, with strong and complex password.

- low-privileged account `vmail`.
- admin account `vmailadmin`.

This tutorial has been tested on:

- Windows Server 2012

If it works for you on different Windows Server version, please let us know.

## Create low-privileged account.

- Click `Start` on bottom-left corner of your Windows OS, click `Server Manager`.

- Click `Tools` on top-right corner, click `Active Directory Domains and Trusts`.

- Right click your AD domain, here is `iredmail.org`, then click `Manage`.

- At the new windows, right click `Users` --> `New` --> `User`.

- Input `vmail` account info, click `Next`.

- Input `vmail` account passowrd, and select `Password never expires`, click `Next`.

- Click `Finish` to confirm.

- Now account `vmail` has created, we will set read-only permission for `vmail`, right click your AD domian here is `iredmail.org`, and select `Delegate Control...`.

- Click `Next`.

- Click `Add`.

- Input read-only account `vmail`, and click `Ok`.

- Click `Next`.

- Select `"Read all user information"`, click `Next`.

- Click `Finish` to confirm.

- Low-privileged account `vmail` created.

## Create admin account.

- Click `Start` on bottom-left corner of your Windows OS, click `Server Manager`.

- Click `Tools` on top-right corner, click `Active Directory Domains and Trusts`.

- Right click your AD domain, here is `iredmail.org`, then click `Manage`.

- At the new windows, right click `Users` --> `New` --> `User`.

- Input `vmailadmin` account info, click `Next`.

- Input `vmailadmin` account passowrd, and select `Password never expires`, click `Next`.

- Click `Finish` to confirm.

- Now account `vmailadmin` has created, we will set read-only permission for `vmail`, right click your AD domian here is `iredmail.org`, and select `Delegate Control...`.

- Click `Next`.

- Click `Add`.

- Input admin account `vmailadmin`, and click `Ok`.

- Click `Next`.

- Select `"Create，delete, and manage user accounts"`, `"Reset user passowords and force password change at next logon"`, `"Read all user information"`, click `Next`.

- Click `Finish` to confirm.

- Low-privileged account `vmailadmin` created.