Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

1-4: Understand Role-Based Management

Solution overview

Type of solution	Guidance
Features and tools	Active Directory groups
Solution summary	Understand the fundamentals of role-based management using Active Directory.
Benefits	Communicate effectively about role-based management.

Introduction

In Scenarios, Pain, and Solution I laid out the challenges of an unmanaged environment and presented a vision of a well-managed environment. I highly recommend that you review that section. In this solution, I'll lay out the fundamentals of role-based management.

As I stated in Scenarios, Pain, and Solution, the goal of role-based management is to enable an enterprise to define its users and computers by the roles they play, and through that role-based definition to ...