Thursday, July 18, 2013

Understanding Group Types in ADDS


Group are collection of users with some common attributes for easy management. Before creating groups in Active Directory i will recommend you to understand basic concept about group types and strategy.

Group Types:

1- Distribution

These groups are basically used by email application such as exchange server.
Distribution group does not have SID (Security Identification id).
They can not be used for security purpose.

2- Security
These types of group have a unique SID (Security Identification id).
They are used for security purpose.

Group Scope

Group Scopes are divided on the base of

Replication :     Where it can be replicate.
Membership :   What type object it can add.
Availability :      Where it can be used.

There are following group scopes are available.

A= Local Group
Members:    Users ,computers, local groups, global groups, and universal group from any domain in the forest.

Replication:  Membership can not replicate with other system.

Availability:  Only computer wide scope, local group can not be member of any other group.

B= Domain local:
Members:     Users, computers, global gropus, and universal group

Replication:  Membership are replicated in every domain controller in the domain.

Availability:  Available for only same domain.


C= Global group:

Membership: Limited membership only users, computers, and other global group can member of Global group.

Replication: All domain controllers in the domain.

Availability: Any domain in the forest, and trusting domain.

D= Universal group:
Membership: Users, computers, global groups, universal groups.

Replication:   Replicated via Global catalog.

Availability:   Available in everywhere in the forest.

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