Domain Users Group Vs Authenticated Users

The authenticated users group includes all users whose identities were authenticated when they logged on.

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. After the initial installation of the operating system the only member is the authenticated users group.

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. This includes local user accounts as well as all domain user accounts from trusted domains. When a computer joins a domain the domain users group is added to the users group on the computer.

The authenticated users group is a member of the users group. The authenticated users group contains users who have authenticated to the domain or a domain that is trusted by the computer 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.

This is a built in group that cannot be modified. When a computer joins a domain the domain users group is added to the users group on the computer. Users can perform tasks such as running applications using local and network printers shutting down the computer.