MCTS Windows Server® 2008 Active Directory Configuration: Study Guide

9.7. Summary

In this chapter, we talked about planning for and implementing security with Active Directory. You cannot overlook security; it's important to always consider how security may affect your deployment or lack of it—how it will ultimately affect your system if it is hacked.

We also looked at the differences between security and distribution groups. Distribution groups are used for only one thing: email distribution lists. These groups are used with email applications (such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007) to send email to the members of the group you create. They will not allow you to assign permissions, and you cannot use them to filter Group Policy settings. In the Windows Server 2008 operating system, security groups are used ...