Domain Users Group Vs Authenticated Users

This includes local user accounts as well as all domain user accounts from trusted domains.

Domain users group vs authenticated users. The authenticated users group contains users who have authenticated to the domain or a domain that is trusted by the computer domain. The authenticated users group can be used to grant permissions across a forest but domain users is a security group for users in a specific domain. Authenticated users will contain all manually created user accounts in all trusted domains regardless of whether they are a member of the domain users group or not. After the initial installation of the operating system the only member is the authenticated users group.

The authenticated users group contains users who have authenticated to the domain or a domain that is trusted by the computer domain. The authenticated users group includes all users whose identities were authenticated when they logged on. After the initial installation of the operating system the only member is the authenticated users group. Authenticated users was first introduced in windows nt 4 0 sp3.

When a computer joins a domain the domain users group is added to the users group on the computer. The everyone group includes all members of the authenticated users group as well as the built in guest account and several other built in security. Users can perform tasks such as running applications using local and network printers shutting down the computer. This is a built in group that cannot be modified.