Windows Server ® 2008: Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, Second Edition

Chapter 10. Creating User and Group Accounts

• User Account Setup and Organization 297

• Configuring Account Policies 302

• Configuring User Rights Policies 307

• Adding a User Account 310

• Adding a Group Account 313

• Handling Global Group Membership 316

• Implementing Managed Accounts 318

A key part of your job as an administrator is to create accounts, and this chapter shows you how. User and group accounts allow Windows Server 2008 R2 to track and manage information about users, including permissions and privileges. To 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 ...