Lab challenge assigning user rights

MOAC 70-687 - Configuring Windows 8.1 MLO Worksheet

Lab 15

Configuring Authentication and Authorization

This lab contains the following exercises and activities:

Exercise 15.1

Creating Local Users

Exercise 15.2

Lab Challenge

Managing Credentials

Assigning User Rights

Exercise 15.1

Creating Local Users

Overview

In this exercise, you will create new local user accounts with the controls provided in the Windows 8.1 PC Settings screen.

Mindset

In a workgroup environment, users must have separate accounts on every computer they access.

Completion time

15 minutes

Question 1

What happens in Windows 8.1 when you try to create a user through the traditional method, using the User Control Panel?

10. Take a screen shot of the Manage other accounts page showing the new accounts you created by pressing Ctrl+Prt Scr and then paste the resulting image into the Lab15_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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Exercise 15.2

Managing Credentials

Overview

In this exercise, you will use some of the new tools in Windows 8.1 to manage the credentials for the users you have created.

Mindset

Windows 8.1 provides support for a number of alternative authentication methods, including PINs, Smart Cards, biometrics, and picture passwords.

Completion time

20 minutes

Question 2

Why are you unable to connect to SERVERA without supplying credentials?

10. Take a screen shot of the Windows Credentials control panel showing the new credential you entered by pressing Ctrl+Prt Scr and then paste the resulting image into the Lab15_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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Question 3

Why are you now able to connect to SERVERA without supplying credentials?

Lab Challenge

Assigning User Rights

Overview

In this challenge, you will add a selection of user rights assignments to the ones that already exist.

Mindset

User rights provide specific users or groups with the ability to perform specific tasks on a computer running Windows 8.1.

Completion time

15 minutes

Your organization has created a new job role called the director, and your job is to provide the new directors with the user rights they need to perform their jobs.. To complete this challenge, you must create the Directors group on ClientB and add the three user accounts you created in Exercise 15.1 to that group. Then you must grant the Directors group the following user rights to your local system, without interfering with any of the existing rights:

· Deny logon locally

· Enable computer and user accounts to be trusted for delegation

· Force shutdown from a remote system

· Manage auditing and security log

· Shut down the system

Write out the basic steps you had to perform to accomplish the challenge and then shoot a screen shot showing the user rights you configured. Then press Ctrl+V to paste the image on the page provided in the Lab15_worksheet file.

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