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Jeroen Burgerhout
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Jeroen Burgerhout

Jeroen Burgerhout is a Microsoft Cloud Consultant at SKS Professionals with great technical experience in Microsoft products. He is specialized in Azure, Hyper-V, Intune, Office 365, EMS, Windows 10, and Windows Server. He is currently working for the government in the Netherlands, working on the migration to Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Azure Active Directory, and security features such as Azure AD PIM, Azure AD MFA, and Azure AD Conditional Access. Later this year, he will start with the new Modern Workplace concept, which is entitled to Windows 10, Windows Autopilot, Microsoft Endpoint Management, Office 365, and Azure AD. His Twitter account is @BurgerhoutJ.
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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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Jeroen Burgerhout

Jeroen Burgerhout is a Microsoft Cloud Consultant at SKS Professionals with great technical experience in Microsoft products. He is specialized in Azure, Hyper-V, Intune, Office 365, EMS, Windows 10, and Windows Server. He is currently working for the government in the Netherlands, working on the migration to Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Azure Active Directory, and security features such as Azure AD PIM, Azure AD MFA, and Azure AD Conditional Access. Later this year, he will start with the new Modern Workplace concept, which is entitled to Windows 10, Windows Autopilot, Microsoft Endpoint Management, Office 365, and Azure AD. His Twitter account is @BurgerhoutJ.
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