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Managing Users, Groups, and Computers

As an administrator, managing users, groups, and computers will probably be a significant part of your duties and responsibilities. Managing users, groups, and computers encapsulates the important duties of a system administrator because of the way you must balance convenience, performance, fault tolerance, and security.

More in this tutorial:

  • Managing Domain User Accounts
  • Configuring User Account Policies
  • Enforcing Password Policy
  • Configuring Account Lockout Policy
  • Creating Password Settings Objects and Applying Secondary Settings
  • Assigning User Rights
  • Configuring Profile Options and more.

In this tutorial:

  1. Managing Domain User Accounts
  2. Configuring User Account Policies
  3. Enforcing Password Policy
  4. Configuring Account Lockout Policy
  5. Creating Password Settings Objects and Applying Secondary Settings
  6. Understanding User Account Capabilities, Privileges, and Rights
  7. Assigning User Rights
  8. Creating and Configuring Domain User Accounts
  9. Configuring Account Options
  10. Configuring Profile Options
  11. Troubleshooting User Accounts
  12. Implementing and Creating Preconfigured Profiles
  13. Configuring Local User Profiles
  14. Implementing Mandatory User Profiles
  15. Managing User Data
  16. Using Offline Files
  17. Configuring Offline Files on Clients
  18. Maintaining User Accounts
  19. Moving User Accounts
  20. Resetting a User's Domain Password
  21. Creating a User Account Password Backup
  22. Managing Groups
  23. Understanding the Scopes of Groups
  24. Creating a Group
  25. Creating group accounts at the command line
  26. Modifying Groups
  27. Managing Computer Accounts
  28. Moving a Computer Account
  29. Configuring Properties of Computer Accounts
  30. Troubleshooting Computer Accounts