Microsoft KB Archive/833374

= Description of the groups that are displayed in the Member Of list in Active Directory Users and Computers in Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 =

PSS ID Number: 833374

Article Last Modified on 1/8/2004

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition

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SUMMARY
This article contains information about the groups that are displayed in the Member Of list when you use Active Directory Users and Computers to view group membership information for a user or for a group. This article discusses a change in the groups that are displayed in Windows Server 2003 from the groups that are displayed in Microsoft Windows 2000.



MORE INFORMATION
To see the Member Of list for a group, open Active Directory Users and Computers, expand Users, right-click the group, and then click the Member Of tab. In Windows Server 2003, the Member Of list for a group displays a list of groups in the local domain and universal groups that the group belongs to.

To see the Member Of list for a user, open Active Directory Users and Computers, expand Users, right-click the user, and then click the Member Of tab. The Member Of list for a user displays a list of groups in the local domain that the user belongs to. Group membership information on other domains is not displayed in the list. This is a change in behavior from Windows 2000. In Windows 2000, if you use Active Directory Users and Computers to view group membership information for a user on a domain controller that also contains the global catalog, the Member Of list displays group membership information on the local domain and group membership information on other domains. In Windows Server 2003, the Member Of list displays only group membership information on the local domain.

For more information about how to use Active Directory Users and Computers to manage users and groups in the Active Directory directory service, see Windows Server 2003 Help. To view the Windows Server 2003 Help documentation, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/proddoc/default.mspx

Keywords: kbinfo KB833374

Technology: kbWinServ2003Data kbWinServ2003DataSearch kbWinServ2003Ent kbWinServ2003EntSearch kbWinServ2003Search kbWinServ2003St kbWinServ2003Web

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