Windows 2000 Professional: Administering Users and Groups

In this course, you will become acquainted with the various tasks involved in administering users and groups. You will learn to create user accounts and groups, change their passwords, and change their group memberships, as well as to set up and modify group policies in Windows 2000 Professional. The course also covers using environment variables, user profiles, and IntelliMirror, all of which help you to manage user data and desktop and policy settings. You will learn to create and modify System and User environment variables. You will also learn to create and manage user profiles that enable you to maintain users'' data. The course will teach you to resolve some of the problems related to user accounts and group policies. Related Exam: Microsoft Exam #70-210: Implementing and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000.

Administering Users and Groups training covers such topics as:

Managing User Accounts and Groups
Managing User Settings
Troubleshooting User Accounts and Group Policies

Learn exactly what you need to know about creating local users and groups and explain the need for creating domain user accounts. Create local users and add them to groups, change group memberships, implement group policies, describe the different types of the user profiles, and troubleshoot user accounts and group policies.

Completion of this course and the other Course CBT titles from this curriculum will prepare the learner for MCSE Exam 70-210: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional.
Audience
The course addresses the training needs of system administrators, network designers, and IT consultants. This course also addresses the needs of IT professionals who want to become certified under the new Windows 2000 MCSE track. Completion of this course and the other Course CBT titles from this curriculum will prepare the learner for MCSE Exam 70-210: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional.
Prerequisites
This course assumes the learner has experience installing or maintaining networks, although not necessarily Windows NT networks. Familiarity with Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0 Workstation desktop operating systems is also assumed.
Course Duration
» 5 hours
Topics Include
Managing User Accounts and Groups
» Creating User Accounts
» Managing User Accounts
» Creating Groups
» Managing Groups and Group Memberships
» Setting Up Group Policies
» Adding Group Policy Settings to GPOs
Everything Courseware Windows 2000 Professional: Administering Users and Groups Managing User Settings
» Working with Environment Variables
» Using IntelliMirror
» Creating User Profiles
» Managing User Profiles
Troubleshooting User Accounts and Group Policies
» Troubleshooting User Accounts
» Troubleshooting Group Policies
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
» Explain the need for creating local users and groups
» Explain the need for creating domain user accounts
» Create local users and add them to groups
» Change users' group memberships
» Configure local and domain user accounts
» Create local groups
» Describe group policies and their significance
» Implement group policies
» Use IntelliMirror to customize settings
» Describe the defend types of the user profiles
» Edit values for environment variable
» Create and manage user profiles
» Troubleshoot user accounts and group policies

System Requirements CD-Based » Pentium class computer » 200 MHz processor (266 MHz recommended) » 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended) » CD-ROM drive » Any one of Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 or Windows XP (both Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 require at least 64 MB RAM) » SVGA monitor capable of 16-bit color and 800 x 600 screen resolution » Sound card with speakers or headphones (optional)