Kevin Beasy
IT 222
04/19/2010

Homework #5

1. Which of the following two scripting languages are supported by WSH? d, e

2. Your company has just purchased a new printer that the owner wants all employees to be able to use. You currently have only one domain with two servers running Windows Server 2003. All users have accounts to authenticate daily to the network. As the administrator, what is the simplest and most secure way to assign permissions to all of the users in your domain? d

3. You work for a local school district as the district wide network administrator. Currently the district has a UNIX database that contains all student records. The district board of educators would like you to use the Same user names on the Windows Server 2003 network that are currently are being used on the UNIX server. They have asked you how you intend to accomplish this task. What will you tell them? The best strategy for this is to export the UNIX database information to a file. This file can be edited and used either with CSVDE, LDIFDE, or WSH.

4. Having just hired a new employee to help you with some administrative tasks, you would like this person to be responsible for network backups. Without giving more access than is necessary to perform this task, to which group should you add the new employee’s user account? d

5. Your company network consists of four domains that include Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 servers. Each domain has a group of managers that need access to the same resource. You are trying to create a universal group to nest the managers’ global groups, but the universal group option is dimmed out. What is most likely the cause for this condition? Your domain is in mixed mode due to the Windows NT Server 4.0 servers. Mixed mode does not offer universal group support.

6. What is the difference between a security group and a distribution group?

Distribution groups cannot be assigned resource access permissions. Security groups offer both distribution list capabilities and security permission assignments.

7. What is the difference between a domain local group and a local group?

Domain local groups are stored in Active Directory. They can be centrally managed and can be given permission to access domain resources. Local groups are stored on the computer in which they are created, cannot be centrally managed, and cannot be given permission to domain resources.

8. You have just finished joining a newly installed Windows XP workstation into your domain. To which group will this computer be a member by default? d