Author: Microsoft Geek

How to create a user account and some basic user account management techniques. n the previous part of this article series, I began discussing the Active Directory Users and Computers console. Although that article explained how to connect to the domain of choice using the console, it never actually explained how to use the console for day-to-day management tasks. In this article, […]

This article continues the Networking for Beginners series by introducing the concept of security groups. In the previous article in this series, I showed you how to use the Active Directory Users and Computers console to create and manage user accounts. In this article, I want to continue the discussion by teaching you about groups. In a domain environment, user […]

The various types of security groups that Windows allows you to create. In the previous article, I showed you how to create security groups in Windows Server 2003. When I walked you through the process though, you might have noticed that Windows allows you to create a few different types of groups, as shown in Figure A. As you might […]

This article continues the discussion on Universal Groups and the concept of group nesting. In the previous article in this series, I introduced you to the concept of using groups to manage network access control, rather than granting permissions directly to users. I then went on to explain that Windows Server 2003 supports a few different types of groups, and […]

The role that the Windows Operating System plays in networking. I received an e-mail message from a reader who wanted to know why most of the articles in this series have focused on Windows. It was not so much that the person who sent me the message hated Microsoft, or preferred Linux, or anything like that, but wondered why Windows […]

How the OSI model is used to help applications to communicate across a network. Suppose that an application needs to be able to communicate across the network. The application developer does not build network drivers into the application, they merely write the application in a way that allows it to make certain calls to the Windows operating system. The manufacturer […]

This article continues the Networking for Beginners series by explaining how to make resources available on a network. In the previous article, I talked about the OSI model and how it serves as a model for implementing abstraction between the hardware and the software. In this article, I had originally intended to talk about how protocol stacks are related to […]

This article continues the Networking for Beginner series by talking about the difference between file level and share level permissions. In the previous part of this article series, I began showing you how to create a network share that you can use to share resources located on a server. So far, we have created a share, but we have yet […]