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Marty Matthews

"Microsoft Windows Server 2008: A Beginner's Guide"


4. Click the Owner tab, in which you can see who the current owner is and the
people to whom the ownership can be transferred. When you are finished,
click OK twice to close the two dialog boxes still open. Also close the Windows
Explorer.
Giving permission to take ownership is described in ???Permissions??? later in this chapter.
Groups
Groups, or group accounts, are collections of user accounts and can have permissions assigned
to them just like user accounts. Most permissions are granted to groups, not individuals,
and then individuals are made members of the groups. It is therefore important
that you have a set of groups that handles both the mix of people in your organization
and the mix of permissions that you want to establish. A number of standard groups
with preassigned permissions are built into Windows Server 2008, but you can create
your own groups, and you can assign users to any of these.
Look at the groups that are a standard part of Windows Server 2008 and see what
permissions they contain, and then create your own if you need to. As with user accounts,
you look at groups differently depending on whether you are on a stand-alone
server or on an Active Directory domain controller.
540 Microsoft Windows Server 2008: A Beginner??™s Guide
Groups in Stand-Alone Servers and Workstations
To view and add groups in stand-alone servers or workstations, you need to use the
Computer Management window, as follows:
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