Windows® Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

1-2: Create a GUI Tool to Enumerate Group Memberships

Solution overview

Type of solution	HTML Application (HTA)
Features and tools	HTA, HTML, VBScript
Solution summary	Create a GUI tool to enumerate a user's (or computer's) group memberships, and learn how to turn scripts into administrative tools.
Benefits	Answer the question, "What groups does ____ belong to?" Make group memberships more visible than what is possible using the standard GUI toolset.
Preview	Figure 1-7 shows the Group Membership Report HTA in action, enumerating the memberships of a user whose pre–Windows 2000 logon name is jfine.

Figure 1-7. The Group Membership Report HTA

Introduction

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