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Working with Group Policy Restricted Groups policies

What are Restricted Groups? The Restricted Groups security setting in Group Policy allows an administrator to define two properties for security-sensitive groups (“restricted” groups). The two properties are Members and Member Of. In short it lets an Administrator decide which security principals are members of a restricted group, and which groups the restricted group is …

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Difference betwen groups in the Builtin container and Domain Local groups

Group sAMAccountType groupType systemFlags isCriticalSystemObject —————————————————————————— Built-in 536870912 -2147483643 -1946157056 Yes DL       536870912 -2147483644 <Not Set> <Not Set>The groups in the Builtin container may look like ordinary Domain Local groups, but they are not. In Windows Server 2003 Active Directory they are listed as Builtin Local. These groups cannot be used on other machines in …

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