Technology Policies/Guest Users

We’re starting a new series on Monday called “Policy Monday” to help share common technology policies. This week we’ll start with Adding Guest Accounts to the Network.

The following is a general guideline for creating guest user accounts on Active Directory based Windows network.

  1. Create a new Guest Organizational Unit
  2. Create the guest account:
    1. If it is a role account (several temps performing the same job) then create a “role based” username
    2. If it is restricted to a single user for a short period of time, then create a “real name” based username
  3. Set the account expiry to something reasonable
  4. Set the change password on next logon and assist the user with their first logon to the desktop.