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Understanding Active Directory and Group Policy: Installation, Management, and Benefits Explained
Learn about Active Directory and Group Policy, including what they are, why businesses need them, installation process, creating user/computer accounts, managing objects through group policy, and more. Get insights on optimizing network management.
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welcome to Active Directory domain
services overview I'm Kevin Brown and
I'm going to be your trainer for this
lesson the topics will actually cover
will include answering the question
exactly what is Active Directory I'm
also going to talk about why a business
actually needs Active Directory I'm
going to demonstrate the entire
installation of Active Directory and I'm
going to also demonstrate how you can
create user accounts computer accounts
groups and other objects and how you can
actually manage those through group
policy
be sure to check out our other courses
at RTS networking.com slash demo
there are two type of logical network
designs that exist one is called a
workgroup the other is called a domain a
workgroup is synonymous with like a home
network as in very small network
typically less than 20 devices now the
easiest way to think about this is to
think of it like your home network let's
say I have four computers in my house
I'm gonna say this belongs to Bob
Bob's password is happy trees so Bob
logs in the PC one with that account PC
four belongs to Sally Sally's password
is Blue Goose Bob can log in the PC one
but only in the PC one if Bob sits at PC
two three or four and types in the
username Bob the password happy trees
does not work he does not have a user
account on those computers
likewise Sally does not have a user
account on any computer other than PC
for now where these accounts are stored
when you're in a workgroup like your
home network every computer has
something called a Sam stands for
security Account Manager this Sam is
actually a database it contains the
local user accounts so that Sam database
is only resident on the computer you
created your user account on it's not
shared or replicated between other
computers now in a home network this is
probably exactly what I want if bob is
