Managing Groups

This section details what you need to know to use groups in Active Directory®. It discusses the following:

• What are groups and how are they used
• Group objects
• Groups on mixed-mode and native-mode domains
• Creating groups
• Adding members to groups
• Removing members from groups in a domain
• Nesting groups
• Determining a user's or group's membership in a group
• Enumerating groups
• Querying for groups in a domain
• Changing a group's scope or type
• Deleting Groups. A group is deleted in the same was as any other Active Directory object. For more information about deleting Active Directory objects, see Creating and Deleting Active Directory Objects.
• Moving Groups. A group is moved in the same was as any other Active Directory object. For more information about moving Active Directory objects, see Moving Objects.
• Getting the domain account-style name of a group
• Managing groups on member servers and a computer running Windows NT Workstation/Windows 2000 Professional
• What application and service developers need to know about groups