How User Accounts are Created and Maintained in Workgroup Computers and How These Change within Active Directory
Unit 1
Assignment 2
Executive Summary Report
Consider how the user accounts are created and maintained in workgroup computers. How will that change within Active Directory?
A few difference between Workgroups and Domains are as follows:
In a workgroup:
All computers are peers; no computer has control over another computer.
Each computer has a set of user accounts. To log on to any computer in the workgroup, you must have an account on that computer.
There are typically no more than twenty computers.
A workgroup is not protected by a password.
All computers must be on the same local network or subnet.
In a domain:
One or more computers are servers. Network administrators use servers to control the security and permissions for all computers on the domain. This makes it easy to make changes because the changes are automatically made to all computers. Domain users must provide a password or other credentials each time they access the domain.
If you have a user account on the domain, you can log on to any computer on the domain without needing an account on that computer.
You probably can make only limited changes to a computer's settings because network administrators often want to ensure consistency among computers.
There can be thousands of computers in a domain.
The computers can be on different local networks.
What happens to the existing user accounts?
The only user and\or group change that occurs when joining a computer to a domain is that the domain users group is added to the local users group and the domain admins group is added to the local admins group. Your local user accounts will be unaffected and there will be no conflict with the domain user with the same name.
Unless you try to join some of the computers to the domain & promote it to a domain controller, in which case you'll no longer have local computer accounts.
How will multiple users defined on separate computers be handled?
As I showed above, Active Directory makes it very simple to
Assignment 2
Executive Summary Report
Consider how the user accounts are created and maintained in workgroup computers. How will that change within Active Directory?
A few difference between Workgroups and Domains are as follows:
In a workgroup:
All computers are peers; no computer has control over another computer.
Each computer has a set of user accounts. To log on to any computer in the workgroup, you must have an account on that computer.
There are typically no more than twenty computers.
A workgroup is not protected by a password.
All computers must be on the same local network or subnet.
In a domain:
One or more computers are servers. Network administrators use servers to control the security and permissions for all computers on the domain. This makes it easy to make changes because the changes are automatically made to all computers. Domain users must provide a password or other credentials each time they access the domain.
If you have a user account on the domain, you can log on to any computer on the domain without needing an account on that computer.
You probably can make only limited changes to a computer's settings because network administrators often want to ensure consistency among computers.
There can be thousands of computers in a domain.
The computers can be on different local networks.
What happens to the existing user accounts?
The only user and\or group change that occurs when joining a computer to a domain is that the domain users group is added to the local users group and the domain admins group is added to the local admins group. Your local user accounts will be unaffected and there will be no conflict with the domain user with the same name.
Unless you try to join some of the computers to the domain & promote it to a domain controller, in which case you'll no longer have local computer accounts.
How will multiple users defined on separate computers be handled?
As I showed above, Active Directory makes it very simple to