RE: Adding Groups as members of Groups ???

From: Optikal (Optikal_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:51:01 -0700

That sounds like its exactly the answer I was looking for. Upon checking,
our server is in fact setup in Windows 2000 Mixed Mode. We are planning on
upgrading that as soon as we can eliminate the couple legacy NT servers we
have still in use.

Thanks Ulf

"Ulf B. Simon-Weidner [MVP]" wrote:

> "Optikal" <Optikal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:Optikal@discussions.microsoft.com:
> > This is on a Windows 2003 Server, and I originally tried to nest global
> > security groups inside other global security groups, but it was giving me
> > the
> > error from my initial post that it couldn't find the group. I didn't set
> > any
> > special options on the groups, I just clicked New -> Group, typed in the
> > name
> > and hit OK. It defaults to Global / Security Group...
> >
> > Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
> >
>
> As I said - the mode of the domain needs to be either Windows 2000
> native or Windows Server 2003 mode, group nesting is not supported in
> Windows 2000 mixed or Windows Server 2003 interim mode.
>
> I'm talking about Active Directory Domain Functional Levels - you can
> see and configure that using Active Directory Users and Computers,
> click on the domain, right click, change domain functional level or so
> (not sure about the specific wording).
>
> --
> Gruesse - Sincerely,
>
> Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
>
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>

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