Now, I’m going to assume that you already installed Server 2008 and Active Directory and have your server set up and ready to go.

Today we’ll start with a quick review of Active Directory so you can get a good idea of what’s new in the 2008 version.

Then we’ll talk about user and group creation before jumping in to the hands-on demo portion of the video where I’ll show you how to create users and groups.

Here’s what’s covered in Lesson 3:

• AD review & what’s new in 2008 — we’ll talk about some of the new toys and capabilities that have been added to Server 2008 AD
• Server Manager — next we’ll take a tour of Server Manager to see where things are and what they do
• AD DS Auditing — using our Verde Petra scenario that we went over in Part 1 I’ll show you how to setup Active Directory auditing
• Renaming Admin user – for server hardening we’re going to rename the primary admin account; this is going to protect our server against any attacks and keep our server secure and safe
• Creating users & groups — now we’re going to create a few user accounts and then we’ll create groups for all of the accounts
• Adding users to groups — I’ll also show you how to add users to different groups
• Event Viewer — we’ll end the video with a quick look at the Event Viewer so you can see where to find all the auditing items

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Related posts:

• Lesson 2: How to Install Server 2008 and Active Directory
• Windows Server 2008 Active Directory — Creating Users is Easy!
• Server 2008 Active Directory User Groups — the Easy Way!