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Activity 4-1: Creating and Adding Members to Global

Groups

• Objective: Use Active Directory Users and Computers to create global groups

• Start Administrative Tools Active Directory Users and Computers Users container New Group

• Follow directions to create several global groups and add user accounts to the groups

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Activity 4-2: Creating and Adding Members to Domain

Local Groups

• Objective: Use Active Directory Users and Computers to create domain local groups

• Active Directory Users New Group• Follow directions to create new Domain Local

groups and add global groups to them

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Activity 4-3: Changing the Functional Level of a Domain and Creating and Adding Members to

Universal Groups• Objective: Change the functional level of a

domain to Windows Server 2003 and use Active Directory Users and Computers to create universal groups

• Open your domain object in Active Directory Users and Computers

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• Follow directions to raise the functional level of your domain to Windows Server 2003

• Continue the exercise to create a new universal group

• Continue the exercise to add existing groups to the new group

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Activity 4-4: Converting Group Types

• Objective: Use Active Directory Users and Computers to change group types

• Follow directions to create a new global group with distribution type

• Verify type of new group• Continue exercise to change type to security and

to verify the change

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Activity 4-4 (continued)

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Activity 4-5: Converting Group Scopes

• Objective: Use Active Directory Users and Computers to change group scopes

• Follow directions to create a new global group• Add a member group• Note restrictions and warnings that follow from

group scope structure as described in exercise• Change the scope of the group to universal

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Activity 4-6: Creating Groups Using DSADD

• Objective: Use the DSADD GROUP command to add groups of different types and scopes

• Follow directions to execute dsadd group command to create a new global group

• Verify group creation with Active Directory Users and Computers

• Create a domain local group with members using dsadd group and verify that group was properly created

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Activity 4-7: Modifying Groups Using DSMOD

• Objective: Use the DSMOD GROUP command to modify group accounts

• Follow directions to execute dsmod group command to add a description to an existing group

• Verify modification with Active Directory Users and Computers

• Modify group by adding and removing members and verify changes

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Activity 4-8: Creating and Managing Computer Accounts

• Objective: Use Active Directory Users and Computers to create and manage computer accounts

• Follow directions to create a new computer account from Active Directory Users and Computers

• Configure and review the account as directed

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