Activity: Administering the Network

Your organization has decided to develop guidelines for remote administration of the network. In an earlier review you found that most administrators had taken the steps to make their day-to-day accounts members of the Administrators or Domain Admins groups to give them administrative permissions on the network.

Your goal is to match the potential remote administrative methods to the tasks that are presented to you by circling the best remote administration method. Also, in the space provided, furnish an analysis of why you made your decision. Answers to these questions can be found in the appendix.

Tasks	Remote Administration Method
Create a new user account by using Active Directory Users And Computers	RUNAS command Telnet Service Terminal Services Can't use Remote Administration in this scenario
What factors affected your decision?
Recover an encrypted file using the domain's EFS Recovery account	RUNAS command Telnet Service Terminal Services Can't use Remote Administration in this scenario
What factors affected your decision?
Run a batch file command that requires administrative access to the network	RUNAS command Telnet Service Terminal Services Can't use Remote Administration in this scenario
What factors affected your decision?
Manage a Certification Authority from a Windows 95 or Windows 98 computer	RUNAS command Telnet Service Terminal Services Can't use Remote Administration in this scenario
What factors affected your decision?
Run an administrative process by using n account that requires a smart card for authentication	RUNAS command Telnet Service Terminal Services Can't use Remote Administration in this scenario
What factors affected your decision?
Verify whether a user account is locked out without interrupting an application that's running an hour-long process	RUNAS command Telnet Service Terminal Services Can't use Remote Administration in this scenario
What factors affected your decision?

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