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The CompTIA Authorized Service Center Program
The CompTIA Authorized Service Center Program designates businesses that have above a certain percentage of CompTIA-certified service technicians. CompTIA certifications have proven to be a strong predictor of employee success. As a global, vendor-neutral credential, the CompTIA Authorized Service Center name proves to clients that their technicians are knowledgeable, capable professionals. Major hardware and software [...]
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Note Recall from Chapter 9, "Administering Active Directory Objects," that if you deny per-mission to a user to gain access to an object, the user will not have that permission, even if you allow the permission for a group of which the user is a member. To filter the scope of a GPO, complete the [...]
Lesson 2:
Group Policy Planning Strategies Before implementing group policies, you should create a plan to manage them. You can plan your Group Policy settings, GPOs, and administrative control of GPOs to provide the most efficient Group Policy implementation for your organization. This lesson examines Group Policy planning strategies. After this lesson, you will be able to [...]
Software Settings Node
Note Although some settings are user interface settings—for example, the background bitmap or the ability to use the Run command on the Start menu—they can be applied to computers using settings in the Computer Configuration node. Both the Computer Configuration and the User Configuration nodes include settings for installing software, settings for installing and accessing [...]
Key Points
• The ACL is the tool you use to assign users permission to access resources. • Selective authentication allows you to make flexible access control decisions between domains in an external or forest trust. You can designate the trust authentication level for incoming or outgoing external or forest trusts as selective to control which users [...]
Transferring Object Ownership
Object ownership can be transferred in the following -ways: • The current owner can grant Take Ownership permission to another user, allow¬ ing that user to take ownership at any time. The user must actually take ownership to complete the transfer. • An administrator can take ownership of any file on the computer. However, the [...]
How Inheritance Affects Access Control
There are two ways of assigning permissions to an object: assigning permissions explicitly and assigning them indirectly through inheritance. Permissions set explicitly are defined directly on an object by the object's owner. Permissions assigned through inheritance are propagated to a child object from a parent object. Inherited permissions ease the task of managing permissions and [...]
Using Saved Queries
The saved queries feature is new in Windows Server 2003 and enables administrators to create, edit, save, organize, and e-mail saved queries. The ability to save queries enables administrators to access a specified set of directory objects in order to monitor or perform a specific task on them. Before the saved queries feature, administrators had [...]
Key Points
Before taking the exam, review the key points and terms that are presented in this chapter. You need to know this information. A global catalog server is a domain controller that stores a full copy of all objects in the directory for its host domain and a partial copy of all objects for all other [...]