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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 groups

In the previous section, you learned that there are built-in local user accounts. There are also a few built-in local groups in Windows 10 that provide users with an easier way to delegate the same permissions and rights as other group members. Assigning permissions to groups is much more efficient than applying these rights to individual user accounts.

If you open the Users group or the Administrators group, then you should see members that you recognize. Administrators have complete and unrestricted access to the computer. Users are unable to make system-wide changes, but they can run most applications that have already been installed on the computer.

Default local groups

In the Groups folder, which you can find in the Computer Management console, you can create local groups, change group memberships, rename groups, and delete groups. Microsoft's best practice is to use the default local groups wherever possible. The built-in groups already have...

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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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