Creating groups in Windows Server 2008 & advantage of groups

When you create a new group in Windows 2008, you need to follow these steps:

From the Server Manager Console tree, with configuration and Local Users and Groups open, you click Groups, and then create a new group by right-clicking groups in the left side and by choosing New Group. A New Group dialogue box will open.

1.       When dialogue box appears, you need to enter the group name and a description, which should list the permission the group has.

2.       Click on Add, and the select Users dialog box will open. Type the user names you want to add in the text box, clicking Check Names after each entry, or you can click Advanced, and then click find. You then select a name from the list, and click OK to transfer it to the list of names.

3.       When you are done with steps one and two, click Ok. Click Create to create the new group, and then click close to close the New Group dialog box.

Add Users to Groups-

When you create the groups you can then add users to groups.

 First you need to open the Server Manager Window and then Configuration, Local users and Groups open in the console tree on the left side. You then follow these steps:

1. Open Users by clicking it in the left side, Locate and right click a user in the right pane whose group memberships you would like to change, and then click on properties. The user’s Properties dialog box will then appear.
2. Click the Member of tab, and then click Add. The select Groups dialog box will open.
3. Type the groups you would like to add in the text box by selecting Check Names after each entry or you can click on Advanced. Click on Find Now, and then select a name from the list.
4. Click Ok to transfer it to the list of name. After selecting the groups you would like to add, click on Ok.
5.  When you are done with the user account, click OK to close the Properties dialog box

The Benefits of creating groups in Window 2008:-

The Groups are created because you can share files and folder with other groups. You can give access to the other users who are members of the group by giving them full access permission or limited access permission.  You can also modify your group and also other groups. The other users can do the same work at the time when you are doing it. It can help to manage both users’ data at the same time and it work easily for both users. Both the users can see each other’s data in their system

Group is used in the Windows 2008 Networking environment-

Windows server 2008 is a network operating system and it exists because of its networking ability. This allows it to connect with other groups for the purpose of performing the following functions:

1. Exchanging information. An example of this is sending files and folders to another group.
2. Sharing information by having common files accessed by users.
3. Sharing resources on the network.
4. Networking is important to almost every organization of two or more people who communicate and share information.
5. A networking scheme handles the transfer.
6. A networking hardware also handles the physical connection.