Week 6

One of the first important tasks I was assigned when I started my current job was learning how Active Directory worked to be able to add and remove new and leaving employees as necessary.

Thankfully either Active Directory is not that hard to understand and use, or our company’s implementation/use-case for AD was so simple that I was able to pick it up naturally. (Most likely the latter)

File and folder sharing/permissions were up on the table next and thankfully those were also very simple to understand.

We have since moved to the fully cloud based Entra ID and SharePoint/OneDrive to replace our on-prem AD and file servers, and it was a little bit of a learning curve but I have since figured out how to do everything I need with those and am constantly learning new things to do in Entra and Exchange Admin Center.

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