Permissions

If you are following along with a lab of your own, you are currently having no trouble or limitations because you are probably logging in to your servers or management workstations from an account that is part of the domain administrators group. In fact, you may even be logging in as the domain administrator account.

Sidenote: Do not use the domain administrator account to log in to servers! In a test lab, that's fine. But in a production network, you should absolutely be getting away from ever touching that account. It should be locked down and locked out, and your IT staff should not know what the password is so they can't use it even if they forget that they shouldn't use it. Using the domain administrator account can turn ...

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