Hello Sages,
I’m desperate and dumb here… I run my public school’s net with AD on Server 2003 (Did I mention we’re a public school?) and I’ve discovered that somehow after my last batch upload of new student accounts, I’ve got some students who are only members of the group “Domain Users” instead of being members of both “Domain Users” and the more restrictive group “Students”.
The fix is easy, I know: simply find the students who are missing the Student group membership and add it to their accounts, but I’m stymied by the Find function in AD! Here’s what I’m doing:
1) Find –> “Users, Contacts and Groups”
2) In –> Students OU (the OU that holds all the student accounts)
3) Advanced search tab
4) Field –> User / Member of
5) Condition –> Is not
6) Value –> Students
and it returns nothing!!! Not only that, but even if I tell it to find users who are members of the Student group in the Student OU it still returns nothing!
Obviously I do not know how to provide the correct search values. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
(Perhaps obviously I am also not a scripting wiz, so please try to help me without recourse to LDAP and other things that go way over my head.)
Thanks so much for any help that can open my eyes!
All best and admiration,
Lev in Brooklyn