Overview

• Overview of Permissions

• Configuring and Managing Permissions

• Understanding Group Policy

• Configuring and Managing Group Policy

The End Result

Once your user accounts are created and organized into groups, you need to assign permissions so resources can be accessed. At the end of this chapter, you ll understand share and NT File System (NTFS) permissions and how to configure and manage them in an organized, secure manner. You ll also know how to share resources such as files and folders so they re available to users across the network. Finally, we ll tackle the topic of group policy, which allows you to configure and manage user and computer settings at a very detailed level. By the end of this chapter, you ll understand group policy, group policy objects and how to work with group policies in your domain.

Overview of Permissions

Permissions are the access rights granted to users, groups, computers, and other network resources. These permissions are set in two ways automatically via default Small Business Server 2003 (SBS) settings and manually via administrator (or other) modifications. We mentioned early in the book that SBS and the underlying Windows Server 2003 operating system was more secure, right out of the box, than any previous server operating system from Microsoft. One reason is that, by default, most settings are locked down in Windows Server 2003 and you must manually unlock them to loosen restrictions. Previous operating systems were rather lax by default, and you, the net admin, had to go in and lock everything...