Chapter 16. Managing users, groups, and computers

Managing domain user accounts

Maintaining user accounts

Managing groups

Managing computer accounts

Recovering deleted accounts

Working with managed service accounts

Managing users, groups, and computers will probably be a significant part of your duties and responsibilities as an administrator. 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.

In this chapter you’ll learn how to manage domain accounts. Although local system accounts are discussed, they are not the primary focus. Also, Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 and later add a special type ...

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