Microsoft® Windows Server 2003: Administrator’s Companion
by Charlie Russel, Sharon Crawford, Jason Gerend
Planning a Group Strategy
Looking at your network and the various group types, and then factoring in your specific needs, you can end up feeling as though you’re working on some infernal logic puzzle: Claire lives in a blue house, Luisa collects stamps, Sam drives a Toyota, and Ross eats cheese. Which one has red hair?
Nevertheless, as in so many other aspects of network administration, planning is the essential step. The domain mode determines the types of groups available to you. A mixed-mode domain can’t support groups with universal scope. Thus, as long as you have Microsoft Windows NT backup domain controllers, you are limited to groups with global and domain local scopes. However, with some thought and the use of nesting, these two types ...
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