From the course: Windows Server 2019: Install and Configure Active Directory

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Creating a group

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Creating a group

- [Instructor] While you might find it to be practical to assign rights and permissions to individual user accounts in a very small environment it is not very practical at all when you are working in a large enterprise network. So in order to help alleviate the problem of having to assign rights and permissions to individual users one at a time we now have the ability to create groups and then we can make users members of those groups and then simply assign rights and permissions to the group which will then inherit down to the users. So let me demonstrate the how to create these group objects in Active Directory. To do this, we're going to connect to DC one. Here in Server Manager I'm going to go up to the Tools menu and select Active Directory Users and Computers. Here, we can see our domain landonhotel.local and if I expand it we get all our containers and we need to, just like with creating any other object, we need to select…

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