Mary Help College: Managing Users, Computers, and Groups
Mary Help College: Managing Users, Computers, and Groups
Mary Help College: Managing Users, Computers, and Groups
and Groups
By Mohammed H.
Managing Users and Groups
• You have to create user accounts on each server when someone joins
your organization and remove those accounts when someone leaves.
• Users have to provide a user name and password each time someone
accesses resources on a different server. When it’s time to change
users’ passwords, users must do so on each server
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Introduction to the user
Account
• A user Account provides a user with the ability to
log on to the domain to gain access to network
resources or to log on to a computer to gain
access to resource on that computer
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Types of User Account
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1. Local User Accounts
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Use of Local User Accounts
• Provide access to resources on the local computer
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2. Domain User Accounts
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User Profiles
• The system creates a user profile the first time that
a user logs on to a computer.
• At following logons, the system loads the user's
profile, and then other system components
configure the user's environment according to the
information in the profile.
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Types of User Profiles
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1. Local User Profiles
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When using groups in Active Directory, the following
three major benefits are provided:
• A Security groups allow network administrators to simplify and
reduce administrative requirements by assigning permissions and
rights for a shared resource (think printer or file share) to the
group rather than to each individual user that requires access. In
this way, all users (and groups) that are members of the group
receive the configured permissions and rights through inheritance
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• Security groups allow network administrators efficiently delegate
administrative responsibilities for performing specific tasks in Active
Directory
• Security and distribution groups allow network administrators to
quickly create email distribution groups by assigning an e-mail address
to the group itself.All members of that group that are mailbox-enabled
will receive e-mail that is sent to the group’s e-mail address.This is an
added ability of security groups and the only usage for distribution
groups
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Group Types
• There are two types of groups available for use in both workgroup
and domain environments
– Distribution Groups are used for distributing messages to
group members. Distribution groups are used with e-mail
applications, such as Microsoft Exchange, to send e-mail to all
members of a group in a quick and efficient manner by sending
an e-mail to the group e-mail address
• cannot be listed on the Discretionary Access Control Lists
(DACLs) that are used by Windows to control access to
resources.
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• Security Groups can be used for the distribution of e-mail as
described for distribution groups, but can also be listed on
DACLs, thus allowing them to control access to resources.
Security groups can be used to assign user rights to group
members
Group Scopes
• Unlike group types, which are fairly simple to understand,
group scopes can be frustrating to those new to working with
Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory. The scope of the
group identifies the extent to which the group is applied
throughout the domain tree or forest. There are three group
scopes:
Group Scope Types
• There are three group scopes:
• Universal Groups can include other groups and user/computer accounts from
any domain in the domain tree or forest. Permissions for any domain in the
domain tree or forest can be assigned to universal groups.
• Global Groups can include other groups and user/computer accounts from
only the domain in which the group is defined. Permissions for any domain in
the forest can be assigned to global groups.
• Domain Local groups can include other groups and user/computer accounts
from Windows Server 2003,Windows 2000 Server,and Windows NT
domains.Permissions for only the domain in which the group is defined can be
assigned to domain local groups.
Dynamic Host Configuration of Protocol
(DHCP)
Advantage