Creating Local User Accounts In a workgroup environment, a local user account must be created on each computer to which the individual needs to gain access. To create a user account in a workgroup: 1.
Creating Mounted Drives In this practice, you will create a mounted drive. You are the systems administrator for an organizational unit on a large network. After arriving at work one morning, you read the following e-mail message from your manager: The graphics department has a problem. Half of...
Creating Remote Installation Boot Floppies If the client computer does not have a PXE-enabled network adapter, or the BIOS does not support starting from the Network adapter card, you can create a remote installation boot disk. The boot disk sim...
Creating Testing and Deploying an Image After the hard disk of the reference computer is prepared, an image of the computer is created, tested, and deployed. First, a third-party imaging tool is used to create an image, which is stored on a software distribution point, such as a compact disc o...
Deciding on a Workgroup or Domain Installation Before installing Windows XP Professional, you must decide if you will install the operating system in a workgroup or domain configuration. Workgroup Characteristics A workgroup is a small group of c...
Deploying an Image After creating the image and copying it to removable media or a network share, you are ready to restore the image to the new or existing target computers. Use the same third-party disk imaging application to restore the image that you used to create it. To restore the image f...
Documenting Disk Properties In this practice, you will document disk properties. You are the systems administrator for an organizational unit on a large network. After arriving at work one morning, you read the following e-mail message from your manager: We need to take inventory of all the dif...
Domain Characteristics A domain is a logical grouping of computers on a network that has a central security database for storing security information. Centralized security and administration are important for computers in a domain because they enable an administrator to easily manage computers t...
Domain Name System DNS is a hierarchical client/server-based distributed database management system. The purpose of the DNS database is to translate computer names into IP addresses. When a user enters a domain name in an application,...
Enabling Fast User Switching The Fast User Switching option enables users to switch between user accounts without closing programs or logging off, and is enabled by default. For example, the ability to change user accounts without logging off enables users who need to perform administrative func...
