TABLE OF CONTENTS An important part of the network administrator's job involves management of the network's users and computers. Windows Server 2003 assigns accounts to both users and computers for security and management purposes. User accounts can be further managed by placing them in groups so that tasks such as assigning permissions can be applied to an entire group of users simultaneously rather than having to do so for each individual user account.
We show you how to work with Active Directory user accounts, including the built-in accounts and those you create. You'll also learn to work with group accounts, and you'll learn about group types and scopes. You'll learn to work with computer accounts, and how to manage multiple accounts. We'll show you how to implement User Principal Name (UPN) suffixes, and we'll discuss how to move objects within Active Directory.
You'll learn to use the built in tools both graphical and command line to perform the common administrative tasks associated with the users, groups, and computers including creating and managing all three types of accounts.
Active Directory is made up of a wide variety of different directory service objects. Among these objects are security principal accounts, which consist of the following:
User accounts
Computer accounts
Groups
Security principal accounts are used in authentication and access control, and provide a means to manage what can be accessed on the network. Based on the security settings associated with a security principal account, you can control whether a user, group,...
