Active Directory Basics TryHackMe

Windows Domains

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2 min readJan 18, 2023

In a Windows domain, credentials are stored in a centralised repository called…

Active Directory

The server in charge of running the Active Directory services is called…

Domain Controller

Active Directory

Which group normally administrates all computers and resources in a domain?

Domain Admins

What would be the name of the machine account associated with a machine named TOM-PC?

TOM-PC$

Suppose our company creates a new department for Quality Assurance. What type of containers should we use to group all Quality Assurance users so that policies can be applied consistently to them?

Organizational Units

Managing Users in AD

What was the flag found on Sophie’s desktop?

Enter in remmina or install.

user Phillip -> set password to sophie

Enter account of sophie with new password.

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