From the course: Windows Server 2022: Install and Configure Active Directory

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Creating a group

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Creating a group

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- [Narrator] I had mentioned previously, that one of the main purposes for having user account objects in Active Directory is for the purposes of assigning rights and permissions to our users in our environment. Well, you have to keep in mind that a large enterprise where you may have, you know, tens of thousands of users that the assigning of rights and permissions individually to each user, that could be a lot of work, right? So it is recommended that you assign permissions, not on a user by user basis but using another type of Active Directory object, which is called a group account. The idea behind a group account is that if you create the account and then you make users a member of that group. And any permissions that you assign to the group will also then be automatically assigned to all of the users, okay. So that way we can assign permissions to groups of users at a time instead of one by one. So let's take…

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