Windows Accounts, Groups and Services

beginner 40 min 3 tasks

How Windows keeps track of who you are, which accounts are powerful, and the programs that run in the background.

By the end of this lesson you can picture PowerShell, read whoami, Get-LocalUser and Get-LocalGroupMember output, explain why the Administrators group matters, read Get-Service output, and explain why everyday work should use a standard account. There is no lab in this lesson: every command is shown together with the exact result it printed on a Windows Server lab machine, so you can read along and answer the questions without a Windows computer of your own.

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Updated 2026-11-01

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