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by mjkqb

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Every pc on the network has a global group called Tech Support that has been added to the local admin group. We have 300 users that need to be added to the Tech Support group so they will have sufficient rights to connect to a site that will automatically update their software. They will do updates once a month, then they must be removed from Tech Support.
Is there an easy way to add and remove these users from Tech Support. I can create Global Group for them, but I assume a Global Group cannot be added to Tech Support, which is already a Global Group.
We're using NT 4 servers.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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by erikdr

Dunno about nesting groups. But I do know there are two ways for bulk addition and removing users from a group (techsupport or whatever else):

1) The NET USER and NET GROUP commandline options.
Create an ascii list of users and feed a batchfile with these NET commands for it.

2) Probably also the ADDUSERS util from the NT Resource Kit, though I don't know how good it is to make changes for existing users. However it is easier in handling ascii user lists directly (without the batch file scripting).

Hope this helps,

- The Netherlands

by greybeard770

With NT, global groups can only contain global(domain) users, not other global groups.
A local group can have local users, global (domain) users or global groups as members, but not other local groups.
This may be a good reason to upgrade to W2Kat the server, then you could distribute software updates through global policy.

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