From the course: Windows Server 2016: Install and Configure Active Directory
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Managing user accounts - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2016: Install and Configure Active Directory
Managing user accounts
- In active directory domain services there are many different types of objects that you will be responsible for managing, one of those objects is something known as the user account object. The user account object is basically the interface between an actual user and your active directory domains service enterprise, in other words you need to be able to allow the actual humans, the actual users in your network to do things, and the way you give them those permissions to do things or restrictions from doing things is by managing through their user account. So to demonstrate this I'm going to jump on to one of our domain controllers called DC1. Here on the server manager on DC1, let's jump up to the tools menu, and the tool I'd like to choose here is active directory users and computers. Here in active directory users and computers, if I want to create a new user account all I have to do is select the container where I want to create that account, so let's expand this and then here I…
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