Chapter 6. Configuring and Managing Groups and User Accounts with SBS 2008

Without users, groups, and permissions, there wouldn't be a lot to Windows SBS 2008. In fact, there wouldn't be a lot to servers in general. Users and groups within SBS 2008 are the main object upon which permissions are placed. Within Windows, they're also associated with Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, and even SQL Server.

The Microsoft Active Directory structure has been designed from the ground up to make user and group accounts very powerful and the administration of them as painless as possible. However, there are a lot of different group types that have special types of associations that you need to understand in order to master SBS 2008.

In this chapter, you ...

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