A network administrator is migrating ten workstations in two workgroups to a new domain. Given the small number, the network administrator manually creates the 10 computer records. The computer records are given the same names as the actual computer names.
The PCs in each workgroup have different local Administrator passwords, so the network administrator creates two groups: WORKGROUPA and WORKGROUPB and moves each computer into the appropriate group.
Using the Easy Setup Wizard, the network administrator creates the default settings on the All Users group. These settings include (not all settings are listed):
At this point, all computers and groups are now inheriting the default settings from All Computers, meaning all computers will use the WORKGROUPA Administrator password. The network administrator browses to the WORKGROUPB group and modifies the password for the local Administrator account for WORKGROUPB using the Change Passwords form. By making this change, the inherited settings that were on the WORKGROUPB group are automatically changed to custom settings. The group changes to a green folder to reflect the new custom settings on this node.
WORKGROUPB now becomes a settings root, and all of the computers in WORKGROUPB are now inheriting their settings from this new root. Any settings changes made on the All Computers settings root will no longer be inherited by any of the computers in WORKGROUPB.
The network administrator now realizes that a mistake was made. WORKSTATION5 was actually part of WORKGROUPA, not WORKGROUPB. He clicks on WORKSTATION5 and drags it onto WORKGROUPB. As WORKSTATION5 does not have custom settings, after the move it automatically inherits its settings from the destination settings root -- in this case the All Computers group.
Return to Settings and Inheritance.