July 2007
Intermediate to advanced
669 pages
16h 40m
English
book
Windows® 7 Desktop Support and Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond
by Darril Gibson
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9.1. Joining a Domain
When Windows 7 is first installed, it is a member of a workgroup by default. Workgroups are used in small offices, home offices, and home networks to allow users to share resources among themselves.
However, networks of more than 10 users implement domains. A domain is easier to manage and provides better security than a workgroup. One important benefit of a domain is that it provides single sign-on capabilities. In a domain, each user has one account that they can use to log on to almost any computer in the domain. In a workgroup, users need a separate account for each computer.
A Windows domain includes at least one server acting as a domain controller and hosting Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Desktop computers ...