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How to Choose a Domain or Workgroup

In this article, I look at how to choose between a Windows Active Directory (AD) domain or workgroup. A Windows workgroup distributes identity and administration across individual computers, while an Active Directory domain centralizes them. That means the real choice is not how the PCs are grouped, but whether your o…

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