Chapter 8. User Management

This chapter covers the following 70-680 Objectives:

• Configure user account control (UAC)

• Configure authentication and authorization

• Configure remote connections

To keep a system secure, you need to use user accounts, which provide accountability and the ability to give rights and permissions to individuals. If your computer has many users, you can then use groups to simplify the granting of rights and permissions by assigning users to groups and then assigning the rights and permissions to those groups. To make your system secure, Windows 7 includes User Account Control to help protect against malware that might attack your system at any time by expanding what a standard user can do on a system without becoming ...

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