When creating SharePoint test environments, one of the prerequisites is to have the necessary SharePoint service accounts. The powershell script below will enable you to create the AD accounts and ready for use when configuring the SharePoint farm. These accounts relate to SharePoint farm configuration, web application pool accounts, service application accounts, search service and content access accounts, user profile synchronisation accounts and object cache accounts. By all means you can modify the values to suit your requirements.

# Get the logged-on user's domain in DN form
$mydom = (get-addomain).distinguishedname

# Specify the OU we want to create the users in
$ouName = "SP Service Accounts"

# Build the full DN of the target OU
$oudn = "OU=$ouname,$mydom"

# Check if the target OU exists. If not, create it.
$OU = get-adorganizationalunit -Filter { name -eq $ouname }
if($OU -eq $null)
{New-ADOrganizationalUnit -Name $OUName -Path $mydom}
else
{write-host "The OU" $ou "already exists."}

# Create users
New-ADUser –Name "SP_Farm" –SamAccountName "SP_Farm" –DisplayName "SP_Farm" `
-Path $oudn –Enabled $true –ChangePasswordAtLogon $false `
-AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "pass@w0rd" -AsPlainText -force) -PassThru
New-ADUser –Name "SP_ServiceApp" –SamAccountName "SP_ServiceApp" –DisplayName "SP_ServiceApp" `
-Path $oudn –Enabled $true –ChangePasswordAtLogon $false `
-AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "pass@w0rd" -AsPlainText -force) -PassThru
New-ADUser –Name "SP_Portal" –SamAccountName "SP_Portal" –DisplayName "SP_Portal" `
-Path $oudn –Enabled $true –ChangePasswordAtLogon $false `
-AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "pass@w0rd" -AsPlainText -force) -PassThru
New-ADUser –Name "SP_MySites" –SamAccountName "SP_MySites" –DisplayName "SP_MySites" `
-Path $oudn –Enabled $true –ChangePasswordAtLogon $false `
-AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "pass@w0rd" -AsPlainText -force) -PassThru
New-ADUser –Name "SP_Search" –SamAccountName "SP_Search" –DisplayName "SP_Search" `
-Path $oudn –Enabled $true –ChangePasswordAtLogon $false `
-AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "pass@w0rd" -AsPlainText -force) -PassThru
New-ADUser –Name "SP_SearchAccess" –SamAccountName "SP_SearchAccess" –DisplayName "SP_SearchAccess" `
-Path $oudn –Enabled $true –ChangePasswordAtLogon $false `
-AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "pass@w0rd" -AsPlainText -force) -PassThru
New-ADUser –Name "SP_UPSync" –SamAccountName "SP_UPSync" –DisplayName "SP_UPSync" `
-Path $oudn –Enabled $true –ChangePasswordAtLogon $false `
-AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "pass@w0rd" -AsPlainText -force) -PassThru
New-ADUser –Name "SP_SuperUser" –SamAccountName "SP_SuperUser" –DisplayName "SP_SuperUser" `
-Path $oudn –Enabled $true –ChangePasswordAtLogon $false `
-AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "pass@w0rd" -AsPlainText -force) -PassThru
New-ADUser –Name "SP_SuperReader" –SamAccountName "SP_SuperReader" –DisplayName "SP_SuperReader" `
-Path $oudn –Enabled $true –ChangePasswordAtLogon $false `
-AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "pass@w0rd" -AsPlainText -force) -PassThru

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Published by Chirag Patel @techChirag

Chirag is an independent Microsoft 365 consultant at Patel Consulting, and Microsoft MVP (Office & Apps Services), based in UK with more than 20 years of industry experience. He is also a BCS (British Computer Society) Member & Chartered IT Professional, Microsoft 365 Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert, MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer) and TOGAF9 Certified Architect. He works with a wide variety of clients in many sectors, designing and implementing business collaboration, data and information management solutions and services based on Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Microsoft 365 technologies, Power Platform to create business value for both themselves and their customers, including UK Microsoft Gold Partners with deployment, upgrade and migration services delivery. Chirag is an active Microsoft 365 community participant, frequent speaker at local and international events including Microsoft 365 Saturdays, Power Saturdays, SharePoint Saturdays, Collab365, TeamsFest, Modern Workplace Summit and Scottish Summit. You can follow Chirag on twitter at @techChirag. View all posts by Chirag Patel @techChirag