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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9.6. Summary
In this chapter, you had an opportunity to create a Windows Server 2008 domain in a virtual environment that can be used as a test bed. After creating the virtual environment, you learned how to join a Windows 7 computer to a domain.
Authentication is used to verify the identity of a user, and authorization is then used to grant the user access to resources. User accounts are created using Active Directory Users and Computers. Built-in groups and administrator-created groups are commonly used in the domain to streamline the process of granting access.
User profiles ensure that users have the same environment each time they log on. Standard profiles are stored locally in the %systemroot%\Users folder. Roaming profiles are stored ...