Group Object User Interface Mapping

Table B-6 though Table B-8 show group object names displayed in the Active Directory Users and Computers tool as they map to names available via ADSI scripting.

Table B-6. Group Object General Property Sheet

UI label

Active Directory attribute

Group Name (pre–Windows 2000)

sAMAccountName

Description

description

E-Mail

mail

Group Scope

groupScope

Group Type

groupType

Notes

info

Table B-7. Group Object Member of Property Sheet

UI label

Active Directory attribute

Comments

Member of

memberOf

Contains the distinguished names of the groups to which this group belongs. The member attribute of each of the groups in this list contains the distinguished name of this group object.

  

The user interface does not directly modify the memberOf attribute. ...

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