Adding a Member to a Group

Consider a scenario where, you are the system administrator of the company. A user Steve Martins has to be allowed only limited rights on the domain. You must add Steve Martins to the Domain Guests group to restrict permissions to Steve Martins.

To add Steve Martins to the domain guests group:

1. Open Active Directory Users and Computers. The Active Directory Users and Computers console appears.

2. Click Users. The list of groups appears.

3. Select Domain Guests.

4. Select Action > Properties. The Domain User Properties dialog box appears.

The options available in the Domain Guests Properties dialog box are:

> Group name(pre-Windows 2000) - Specifies the name that clients using earlier versions of Windows 2000 use to identify the group

> Description - Provides an explanation about the group

> E-mail - Specifies the email address for the group

> Group scope - Specifies the scope of the group

> Group type - Specifies the type for the group

> Notes - Specifies additional information for the group

5. Click the Members tab. The Members tab appears.

6. Click Add. The Select Users, Contacts, or Computers dialog box appears.

7.Enter the domain user name, Steve Martins, in the Enter the object names to select text area.

8.Click OK. Windows Server 2003 adds the user to the group.

9. Click Apply. Windows Server 2003 saves the changes.

10. Click OK.