Windows® 7 Desktop Support and Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond

Chapter 9. Managing Windows 7 in a Domain

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER INCLUDE

• Joining a domain

• Using authentication and authorization

• Identifying and resolving logon issues

• Understanding user profiles

• Running anti-malware software

If you work with a network that has more than 10 computers, it's probably in a Windows domain. It's important to understand some basics of how Windows 7 operates in a domain.

This chapter will lead you through the steps to create a domain in a virtual environment that you can use as a test bed. You can use this test bed to join a Windows 7 computer to a domain, create user accounts and groups in the domain, and view some of the symptoms of logon failures. You'll learn about standard, roaming, mandatory, and super-mandatory ...