General Information

Course Duration:
9 hours

Audience: Windows NT power users, technical support personnel, system engineers, integration specialists, and anyone who is intending to take MCPS or MCSE exams

Prerequisites: Familiarity with the Microsoft Windows or Windows NT environment and an understanding of operating system fundamentals

Topics Covered

• The NT 4.0 environment
• The Microsoft Windows family
• Windows NT features
• NT Workstation and NT Server
• Workgroups and domains
• NT default installation
• Logging on
• Security issues
• Setting up program groups
• Default user accounts
• Creating user accounts
• Setting the user environment profile
• Creating a user account
• Copying and renaming user accounts
• Deleting and disabling user accounts
• Introducing group accounts
• Local v global group accounts
• Default group accounts
• Creating groups and adding users
• Creating a group
• Deleting groups and removing users
• Introducing security policies
• The account policy
• Setting the account policy
• The user rights policy
• The audit policy
• Working with User Manager for Domains
• Account properties
• Managing logon hours
• Setting an account expiration date
• Managing user accounts
• Managing group accounts
• Managing accounts outside the domain
• Global groups
• Global group membership
• Group management

Course Aim

To provide an introduction to the support of Windows NT 4.0

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, the user should be able to

• describe the Microsoft Windows family
• describe the workgroup and domain models
• describe group management strategies
• set up and manage user and group accounts
• set up security policies
• customize user environments
• use User Manager