Deploying and Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: Tools for cloud-based and hybrid environments

Chapter 7. Configure service authentication and account policies

In this chapter, we’ll extend what we did in Chapter 3, “Create and manage users and groups,” by looking at a special kind of user account—the service account—and how the different kinds of service accounts can be used for service authentication. We’ll also cover how to create and apply fine-grained user policies to user accounts, so that you can have different password policies for different sets of users.

Active Directory Windows PowerShell nouns used in this chapter:

ADUser

ADServiceAccount ...