Directory Services

Group Object User Interface Mapping

This topic discusses the Group object property sheets in the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.

General Property Sheet

The following table shows the UI labels of the General property sheet.

UI label Active Directory attribute
Group Name (pre-Windows 2000) sAMAccountName
Description description
E-Mail mail
Group Scope groupType
Group Type groupType
Notes info

Member Of Property Sheet

The following table shows the UI labels of the Member Of property sheet.

UI label Active Directory attribute Description
Member of memberOf Contains the distinguished names of the groups to which this group belongs. The member attribute of each of the groups in this list contains the distinguished name of this group object.

The user interface does not directly modify the memberOf attribute. It modifies the "member" attribute on the group object of which this object is made a member of. Active Directory maintains the memberOf attribute.

Members Property Sheet

The following table shows the UI labels of the Members property sheet.

UI label Active Directory attribute Description
Members member Contains the distinguished names of the members of this group object.