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User accounts and security in a work domain
I recently got my personal laptop connected to my work domain. I don't have much experience with the domain environment & wanted to find out some more info about it.
My local user account has admin privileges and since joining the domain it has now become "Sophos administrator" and has lost the rights to change many system settings. The domain admins also created a new user account (standard user) that allows me to access work printers and shared drives that my local admin account cannot access. This means I have to switch between accounts to access different programs/printers/files etc and this can be time consuming because I have to completely log off and then log back on as the other user. Looking at other threads it also appears that I will no longer be able to access my homegroup when I take my laptop home but I'll deal with that another time.
Anyway my questions are: Can somebody recommend a tutorial on how domains work, and whether I can consolidate both my user accounts without annoying the domain admins?
Also, in terms of my personal files & privacy, is there anything I should be concerned about? (I have turned off network discovery but do the domain admins have remote access to my computer?)
Thanks for your help & sorry if these are simple questions :)