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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (70-290) Tutorials
Administration / Creating Computer Accounts
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We create computer accounts on a domain in order to join that computer to the domain so that, that computer can get access to resources that are on that domain. And there are 2 ways to create computer account on a domain. Actually in Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 each valid user has the add workstation to the domain privilege. Which means, that they can join up to 10 computers to a domain, and they can do that by selecting to change the computer's network identification. We are going to take a look at that in just a minute. But administrators can create computer accounts in the domain in anticipation of additional computers being added to the domain. An administrator can create a computer account for a computer that does not even exist yet because the computer account is totally separate from the physical computer. So, first let us take a look at network identifications. So what we are going to do is to go out to the desktop. Then we are going to take a look at what this computer currently a member of. We are going to right click on my computer and then go to properties and then we are going to locate computer name. As we can see that for computer name here is Serve 2003-1, and it is member of bfe.vtc.com. We want to change this domain membership. We will click on change you as you shall notice this is a domain controller. So the domain controller cannot be changed before it is demoted. It is a great thing to know for the test. But this is where a user would go, who is currently on a workgroup and they would click on change and then select to become a member of a domain. As we said a valid user has the capability of adding workstations to the domain up to 10 workstations to a domain. Now an administrator would use a different tool. Administrator will use Active Directory Users and Computers. So let us go back on to the desktop, click on start then administrative tools and then active directory users and computers. And just as with user accounts we would create computer accounts in the domain, in which we want to manage them The OU within that domain in which we want to manage them. So, for example if we want to create a new computer account that is going to be managed by the same person or the same groups that manage the management OU, then we will create the computer account in the Management OU. So, I will right click on the management OU, select new and then computer. This brings up the wizard for computer accounts. And we are just going to call this one PC2. Now you will mind, I do not really have a PC2 computer. I really do not have a computer named PC2 at this point. But that does not mean that I cannot create an account. We can then assign who is allowed to join this computer to the domain. By default this is domain admin but we can change this. And then we can also change whether we are assigning this computer account as **** Windows 2000 computer or assigning this computer account as backup domain controller. That would be in the case of adding a Windows NT box in a mixed mode environment. If we click on next then we will get the option to add this as a managed computer. So for creating a computer account for a managed computer here what we want to do is put in a globally unique ID. If we want to be able to find this computer by what it's globally unique Id from its BIOS. For example may be to do remote installation later on. Then we can put in the globally unique id here. Then click on next and the wizard says ok, what you did is that you created a computer account with it for name PC2, say yes, finish and we added a computer account. Right click on the computer account look at its properties; we can see that we have many different properties. And we will take a closer look at these computer properties later on. But we can see that we have created the PC2 computer account and now if we want to join a computer named PC2 that computer account already exists. So we create the computer accounts and the user accounts within the organizational unit where we want to manage them, but how we create the organizational unit? In our next section we will discuss creating OUs. That is next.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (70-290) |
| Author: | Bill Ferguson/Certified Instructor |
| SKU: | 33497 |
| ISBN: | 1932072918 |
| Release Date: | 2004-06-03 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 107 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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