Lab 6-1 Using Active Directory Users and Computers 

  1. Log into your server.
  2. Click start and go into Administrative Tools. Can’t see them? Right click on the taskbar and select properties. Tell it to show the administrative tools They should be showing on a server, but you never can tell. 
  3. Open Active Directory Users and Computers.
  4. You should see something that looks like this:

 

Create a new user for yourself.

  1. Right click on the server name and select “New—User”.

 

  1. Enter your information.
  2. Give yourself a username.
  3. Click on the “Member of” tab and select groups.
  4. Add yourself to the Administrators group.

 

Create a new user from a template

  1. Create an administrative user for me! Right click on your user your just created and select copy.
  2. Create a user with my name, Tory O. Klementsen and username teechur, password password.
  3. Have me not have to change the password.
  4. Set it so the password never changes.

Change user properties

  1. Double click on your username or right click and select properties.
  2. Put in your address, set me as your manager, make up a phone number and all that stuff. It all gets published in a directory. How cool is that? Put yourself in a department in a company.

Set up a home directory

  1. Go into your root directory (probably your C: drive) and create a folder named users.
  2. Share this folder with the sharename users.
  3. Go back into Active Directory Users and Computers. Double click on your account. Select the profile tab. You’ll see something like this:

 

  1. Click on Connect. The default drive letter is z:\, leave that. In the to: box type \\nameofyourserver\users\%username%. The %username% is a wildcard used in Active Directory. When you hit apply you should not get a message (if you do, you did something wrong so try again). But what will happen is a folder will be created in that shared folder named users with the name of your user. That user will be set as the “owner” of the folder and he/she will be given full control. When he logs onto his workstation, the server will send a command to map a network drive to z:\. All files saved into z:\ will be available to this user no matter where he logs on in the network! It’s pretty cool. In fact, later you can set a policy that will map the My Documents folder to z:\ for your users so that any time something is saved in My Documents the server will snag a copy, put it on the server, and the user will have a copy on their home computer and the server.
  2. Check the Users directory to make sure a folder was created for your user.

Poke Around Active Directory

  1. Click the Builtin container and write down the list of built in users already available in Active Directory. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Poke around Computers. What computer accounts are set up?

 

 

  1. In AD every computer that is joined to the domain has an account created. You can create them before joining (just type in the name of the computer, exactly) or it’s created automatically when you join the computer to the domain.
  2. Poke around Domain Controllers. What domain controllers have accounts?

 

  1.  Right click on the domain name (at the top) and select find. Type in admin and hit return. What did you find?

 

 

  1. Close Active Directory Users and Computers. No wait, have me check you off, THEN close it! (Be sure you answered the questions first.)