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Microsoft's Active Directory is the backbone of the corporate world. It simplifies the management of devices and users within a corporate environment.

a Windows domain is a group of users and computers under the administration of a given business. a domain is to centralise the administration of common components of a Windows computer network in a single repository called Active Directory (AD). The server that runs the Active Directory services is known as a Domain Controller (DC).

The core of any Windows Domain is the Active Directory Domain Service (AD DS)

The machine account name is the computer's name followed by a dollar sign. For example, a machine named DC01 will have a machine account called DC01$.

You can obtain the complete list of default security groups from the .

Once a change has been made to any GPOs, it might take up to 2 hours for computers to catch up. If you want to force any particular computer to sync its GPOs immediately, you can always run the following command on the desired computer:

PS C:\> gpupdate /force
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