PowerShell: Create Local User Account

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:

Answer 1

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."