Windows Server® 2008 Administrator's Pocket Consultant

Chapter 10. Creating User and Group Accounts

In this chapter:

User Account Setup and Organization

Configuring Account Policies

Configuring User Rights Policies

Adding a User Account

Adding a Group Account

Handling Global Group Membership

A key part of your job as an administrator is to create accounts, and this chapter will show you how. User and group accounts allow Microsoft Windows Server 2008 to track and manage information about users, including permissions and privileges. When you create user accounts, you primarily use the following two account administration tools:

• Active Directory Users And Computers, which is designed to administer accounts throughout an Active Directory Domain Services domain

• Local Users And Groups, which is designed to administer ...