Re: Adding accounts to group doesn't work

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From: Chriss3 [MVP] (noSpamHere_at_chrisse.se)
Date: 10/12/04


Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:17:17 +0200

Hello,
Have you check the group is a member of the local administrator group? Use
Group Policy and Restricted Groups to do this,

Restricted groups with in a Group Policy allow to map membership:
http://www.chrisse.se/MAQB.asp?ID=29

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"Oleg" <Oleg@discussions.microsoft.com> skrev i meddelandet 
news:A9315981-FC99-4A56-917F-22F74B6B0D49@microsoft.com...
> Hi!
>
> I have strange situation.There is DC on Windows 2003 server. This server 
> was
> promoted to W2K3 from W2K server. It has global security group A in AD. 
> There
> are some workstation in domain. Global group A is included into local
> administrator group of every workstation. When I add any user account to
> group A this account should become an admin of workstation.
> The problem is that people who were added to this group A before migration
> to W2K3 are local admins of workstations. But people who were just added 
> to
> group A don't become admins. The same problem is with resources on server.
>
> May be you know what could be the problem?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Oleg 


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