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Active Directory User Group Scope & Membership
Table of Contents
Domain Local User Groups
Global User Group
Universal User Group
Domain Local User Groups
In this example we have two forest ABC.local and
xyz.local
and those are trusted each together and
pqr.local
domain inside the
abc.local
domain.There is a Domain Local user group called HR Users.
To the
Domain Local user group
we can add users,computers,Any
Global
user group,
Universal
user group and
Domain Local
user groups from the same domain.
To the
Domain Local user group
we can add users,computers,
Universal Group
and
Global group
s from the
different domain
in the
same forest
Global User Group
In this example we have two forest ABC.local and
xyz.local
and those are trusted each together and
pqr.local
domain inside the
abc.local
domain.There is a
Global user group
called
HR Users
.
To the
Global user group
we can add users,computers and only
Global user group
from the same domain.
To the
Global Local user group
we cannot add anything from the different domain or different forest.
Universal User Group
In this example we have two forest ABC.local and
xyz.local
and those are trusted each together and
pqr.local
domain inside the
abc.local
domain.There is a
Universal user group
called
HR Users
.
To the
Global user group
we can add
Users,Computers,Global Groups,Universal Groups
from the same domain.
To the
Global user group
we can add
Users,Computers,Global Groups,Universal Groups
from the different
Domains
in the same
Forest
.
To the
Global Local user group
we cannot add anything from the different ] different forest due to global catalog server requirement.