Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory

7. Administering User Accounts Exam Objectives in this Chapter: Plan a user authentication strategy. Plan a smart card authentication strategy. ...

Why This Chapter Matters This chapter shows you how to work with user accounts. As a network administrator, you'll undoubtedly have to create, modify, delete, and troubleshoot issues with user accounts. To perform these tasks effectively, you'll...

Before You Begin To complete the lessons in this chapter, you must Prepare your test environment according to the descriptions given in the "Getting Started" section of "About This Book"Complete the practices for installing ...

Lesson 1. Understanding User Accounts Before you can create user accounts or user profiles, you must understand the types of user accounts and the information necessary to create them. This lesson introduces you to the various types of user ac...

Lesson 2. Creating User Accounts Domain user accounts are created using the Active Directory Users And Computers console. To use either tool, you must have administrator privileges. This lesson takes you step-by-step through creating user acco...

Lesson 3. Managing User Profiles and Home Folders User profiles maintain consistency for users in their desktop environments by providing each user with the same desktop environment as the last time that he or she logged on to the computer. Th...

Lesson 4. Maintaining User Accounts Changes to your organization or personnel might require you to modify user accounts. These modifications include renaming, disabling, enabling, and deleting a user account. You might also need to unlock a us...

Case Scenario Exercise You are the domain administrator for City Power & Light, as presented in Chapter 5 and Chapter 6. City Power & Light has a single Active Directory domain named cpandl.com. Currently the domain has eight OUs. Table ...

Troubleshooting Lab You are a network administrator for Contoso Pharmaceuticals. You receive an e-mail from your manager informing you that three new employees were just hired. When these employees arrive, you are to create user accounts in the ...

Chapter Summary Windows Server 2003 provides three types of user accounts: local user accounts, domain user accounts, and built-in user accounts.The user account naming convention you adopt establishes how users are identified in the domain. A c...

Exam Highlights Before taking the exam, review the key points and terms that are presented in this chapter. You need to know this information. Key Points To plan a user authentication strategy, you must determine whether your organization will...

Questions and Answers Lesson 1 Review Page 7-11 1.Where are domain user accounts created? A1: Domain user accounts are created in Active Directory on a domain controller. 2.What is a smart card? A2: ...