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Microsoft Exam MD-100 Windows 10 Certification Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft Exam MD-100 Windows 10 Certification Guide Learn the skills required to become a Microsoft Certified Modern Desktop Administrator Associate

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838822187
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 : Deploying Windows
2. Chapter 1: Deploying Windows 10 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Upgrading Windows 10 4. Chapter 3: Customizing and Configuring Windows 10 5. Section 2 : Managing Devices and Data
6. Chapter 4: Managing Local Users, Groups, and Devices 7. Chapter 5: Configuring Permissions and File Access 8. Chapter 6: Configuring and Implementing Local Policies 9. Chapter 7: Securing Data and Applications 10. Section 3: Configuring Connectivity
11. Chapter 8: Configuring Various Networks 12. Chapter 9: Configuring Remote Connectivity 13. Section 4: Maintaining Windows
14. Chapter 10: Understanding Troubleshooting and Recovery 15. Chapter 11: Managing Updates 16. Chapter 12: Managing Log Files 17. Chapter 13: Mock Exam (A and B) 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Managing local users

In this section, we will look at the local users in Windows 10. If you have experience with an earlier edition of Windows, you might be familiar with configuring local users since this has remained unchanged over the years.

Before you log into Windows 10, you must create a user account during the initial setup. There are three types of accounts you can use to do this:

  • Local account
  • Domain account
  • Microsoft account

In this chapter, we will focus on the local account, because this will appear in the MD-100 exam.

As described previously, a user account is required to log on in Windows 10. To secure it, the user account should have a password. While installing Windows 10, user accounts that are automatically created. We will look at this shortly.

Configuring local accounts

As the name suggests, a local user account resides on the local device only. It does not allow a user to access resources on other Windows 10 computers. Typically...

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