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Planning and configuring role-based administration

Planning and configuring role-based administration

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Planning and configuring role-based administration

- [Narrator] Now we'll look at planning and configuring role-based administration. So, role-based administration helps ensure that a user who connects by using the Configuration Manager console, or you can also do this in Windows PowerShell, but you can view and modify only those Configuration Manager objects that that user has permission to manage. This will reduce the chance that a user can perform unauthorized actions. Role-based administration also simplifies the auditing of administrative actions, making it easier for you to determine who performed a particular administrative task. So we start this by going to the Administration workspace. And then you'll note we have the security node within the console tree. We can expand that. And then we see the administrative users that we have. Now right now, we only have the domain administrator, the person we're logged in as in the security role called Full Administrator. But we can see the different security roles that are available, and…

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