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Just Enough Administration setup

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Just Enough Administration setup

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- [Instructor] Just enough administration allows us to lock down the ability of certain junior administrators from having full PowerShell access to everything. And there's a couple of different reasons for that, one is you might have a malicious administrator, you might also have an administrator who just may not have full training and could cause damage by typing in the wrong commands. So what I did was I went into Tools, Active Directory Users and Computers, and I went into Users, and I created a user called Junior Admin, and there's my user, and the login is going to just be simply Junior. Now I've made Junior Admin a member of the Domain Admin, so that way this user can remote into PowerShell from another computer, and that would be the computer they'll be using to run their management. Next, I'm going to want to go into PowerShell and type in $env: PSModulePath. And what that does is it shows me the…

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