MCSA/MCSE Exam 70-290: Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment Study Guide
This study system gives readers 100 percent coverage of the official Microsoft 70-290 exam objectives necessary to master the exam on your first try.
TABLE OF CONTENTS MCSA/MCSE Exam 70-290: Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment Study Guide
Creating and Managing Computer Accounts
Exam 70-290: Objective 2.2
Computer accounts serve the same basic function as user accounts: they are used to determine the rights and permissions that a computer will have in the domain. Although computer accounts can be created for any Windows computer on your network running Windows NT or later, only Windows 2000 or later computers will be able to fully participate in Active Directory and receive security and management configuration from Active Directory. Windows 9 x and Windows NT computers require the use of System Policies to configure security and management options. Computers running Windows 3.x, Windows 9 x, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home Edition do not have computer accounts and thus are not domain members.
| Note | You can learn more about System Policies at www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/server/tattooing.asp. |
Computer accounts can be created in one of three ways:
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Manually via the Active Directory Users and Computers console
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From the command line
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Automatically by joining a Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 computer to the domain
Each of these methods is examined in more detail in the following sections.
| Exam Warning | By default, Authenticated Users are assigned the Add workstations to a domain user right and can create up to 10 computer accounts in the domain. This right can be removed or the number of allowed account creations can be changed from 10 to some other number. This is done by editing the Group Policy Object ( Computer Configuration Windows... |
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