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Manage Accounts in Active Directory
In this lab, you’ll practice performing basic user administration tasks in Active Directory (AD). When you’re finished, you’ll have a completed AD infrastructure.

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Challenge
Get Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Manage Windows Users Using GUI Tools
To begin the lab, you will examine an existing Active Directory domain. You will create an organizational unit to contain the user objects for the domain, and create user and group objects.
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Manage Windows Users Using PowerShell
Next you will manage users and groups using Windows PowerShell. You will add new users to the domain, add users to groups, and perform basic reporting using the PowerShell CLI.
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Perform Domain Join and Unjoin
To wrap up the lab, you will use the GUI to delegate permissions to a group to its members to join computers to the Globomantics.co domain. You will then join a computer to the domain using a non-Domain Admin user that is a member of this group.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
What's a lab?
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