Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (70-290) Tutorials
Managing Users And Computers / Modifying User Properties
Subtitles of the Movie (Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (70-290) / Managing Users And Computers / Modifying User Properties)
When we discuss managing users and computers it is better mentioned as kind of 2 schools. There is a school of the administrators that likes to use scripts and command line interfaces for anything that they do. So they can create users and then on the fly modify there properties with command lines then they love that. So there are new tools for Server 2003. They do exactly that. But then there are those who like to use graphical user interface tools. There are also more and more graphical user interface tools being developed as well. So we will discuss a little bit about each of these and focus on what we need to know for the test. So in managing users and computers in particular we are going to talk about modifying user properties whether that is done with command line tool, or that is done in graphical user interfaces. Then we will discuss modifying computers properties, enabling and unlocking accounts, user account templates, creating and saving queries, resetting user and computer accounts and then moving domain objects. So as we said some administrators like to use script driven command line driven tools. So the new command line modes of tools for Server 2003 are called DSadd. So for example if we want to find out everything we need to know about the DSadd tools for users, we can type at the command line DSadd space user space / (forward slash), ? (question mark) and there is tremendous amount of syntax. We are not going to get into all the syntax because it is not testable material. You would not have would to know for the test exactly how to create the syntax to add a user but, you might very well need to know that there is a command line tool available to add a user. By *** we can modify the users that have already been created using DSmod tool. So the reason we talking about this regards to modifying user properties is that, might be one of the advantages of using a DSadd tool that we can create users and modify there properties on the fly. Most of the time we are going to use graphical using interface tool the GUI mode, and we get to the GUI mode by simply right clicking on a user and then going to their properties. So now let us go out to the desktop and then click on start and the administrative tools, active directory users and computers, which brings is active directory users and computers Microsoft Management Console. And then for example Sam Stoned let us right click and then click on properties and we can see many tabs from which we can choose. So we can put in user description and offices and telephone numbers and addresses and account information the more information we put in the better we can manage this user. Need to understand that this information is used to search the active directory and it also works together with programs, like exchange and in other words we can put it in an one place and it is shared as a database through out. We got tremendous amount of information and as we look into security for different individuals and for groups. We will take another closer look at these tabs but the more information we fill out the better we can manage the user. If the user is going to be a member of a group we can click on member of and then place them into the correct membership by clicking on add. So we will take closer look at that when we talk about security. But these are the tabs that we can manipulate for each user. But new to Windows Server 2003 we can also select multiple users and manipulate information or fill in information that is common to those users. So if we select for example Sam Stoned and hold down the control key select Bill Black and Al Crosskey now let us right click and then click on properties. Now as you can see what we are doing is looking at general properties for all three of these multiple objects. This was not available before Server 2003 and we can fill in for example description, office, telephone numbers, anything that is common that we want to change and also account information like **, logon hours. This could be a very useful tool and as we get deeper into security, I think that you can see how we can use this to help save time. So we have got many tabs for multiple objects. We have got address tab, profile tab, organization tab and, again these are going to be common for all of these users. So this is the basics of how we create and modify users. In our next section we will discuss modifying computer accounts. 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 |
VTC Sign up & Benefits
- Unlimited Access
- 81,350 Video Tutorials (14,200 free)
- Video Available as Flash or QuickTime
- Over 715 Courses
- $30 for One Month Access
- Multi-User Discounts Available
