ts to the correct servers. It will assist you with your evaluation of Virtual Machine Manager before deploying into a production environment. For the purpose of the Service Accounts, please read Appendix, Planning Virtual Machine Manager. Getting ready It is assumed you have access to Active Directory to create and populate Security Groups and to create and link Group Policy Objects. How to do it The following diagram shows you the high-level steps involved in this recipe and the tasks required to complete this recipe: Overview of Recipe: Prerequisites (not covered by this recipe): Agree the service account usernames and passwords Agree the required Security Group names Agree the Organisation Unit structure Agree the Group Policy Object names Actions: Creation of required Service Accounts Creation of required Security Groups Creation of required Group Policy Objects Linking Security Groups to Group Policy Objects Linking Group Policy Objects to the correct Organisational Units Initiating a remote Group Policy Update Chapter 1 The following screenshot shows how the Active Directory Organization Units (OUs) are structured for this recipe: Active Directory Users and Computers [DEMO-DC01.ad.demo.com] Saved Queries ad.demo.com Builtin Computers DemoEnv AdministrativeAccounts SecurityGroups ComputerGroups UserGroups Servers FileServers Hyper-V Cluster Management SystemCenter ServiceAccounts Users The list of accounts that will be used is as follows: Account name Username VMM Service Account Running VMM services and SVC_VMMSrvc accessing resources VMM Agent Run As Account Managing Hyper-V Hosts and SVC_VMMAgntRA Infrastructure Servers VMM SQL Server Account Running VMM SQL Server instance SVC_VMMSQLEng VMM SQL Server Agent Account Running VMM SQL Server Agent for SVC_VMMSQLAgnt a SQL instance VM Domain Join Run As Account Joining new VMs to the domain SVC_VMMJoinDom VMM Installation Account The account used to install VMM Install_VMM Installing Virtual Machine Manager Now perform the following steps: Create the user acc