Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Security Handbook

Groups

As with many things in Windows 2000, you might found similarities with the groups of earlier version of Windows. However, there are some important new features that you must know. Before, we knew the local group must contain the global group, and the global group should contain the users. Now, groups are objects that can contain much more than users; for example, they can contain contacts and computers. Another nice feature is that now the groups can be nested within each other.

In Windows 2000, you can use the groups to manage users and computer access to the network resources. You can also use the groups to define distribution lists that, when combined with Exchange 2000, give the operating system great flexibility. Creating a distribution ...