Chapter 8

Group Account Administration

Groups simplify administration by organizing user accounts into manageable units. This chapter provides you with a group planning strategy and procedures for creating groups. The hands-on procedures give you an opportunity to plan and implement global and domain local groups for a network. You learn about the default groups provided by Microsoft Windows 2000. Finally, this chapter discusses the groups to which administrators should be assigned and the benefits of using the Run As program to start a program as an administrator while logged on as a user.

Before You Begin

To complete the lessons in this chapter, you must have

Completed the Setup procedures located in "About This Book"

The knowledge and skills covered in Chapter 7, "User Account Administration"

Knowledge about the difference between a workgroup and a domain, and between a domain controller and a member server

Created the User1, User5, and User9 accounts as directed in Chapter 7