Yep, still a computer policy and so, still targeted at computers. -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graham Turner Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:06 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: restricted groups - MERGE ah didn't know of the other mode - 'members of' as u term it i assume the policy still links to the OU holding computers whose 'local administrators' group we want to add to just that it sounds like u r configuring the group and not the computers G > Graham- > Restricted Groups has two modes--one mode is an exclusive membership thing > and you can't merge group members, either between GPOs or with existing > members. However, the other mode is not exclusive, and lets you add a given > group to another groups, such as local administrators. This is the so-called > "Members of" part of the policy. That should solve your issue here. Let us > know if that doesn't work. > > Darren > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Graham Turner > Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:23 AM > To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [gptalk] restricted groups - MERGE > > i am sure this one has already been asked 'seven million times' but .. > > want to leverage the restrictied groups, such that policy dicates that > certain > global groups are added to 'local administrators' group of machines to which > policy > is linked. > > common issue is that to define this policy causes issues with servers some > of which > have non-standard security and removes anything not defined by the policy. > > just wanted to check no recent extensions to the client side processing of > GPO's > such that we can now set this policy in some sort of 'merge' mode whereby > listed > groups are merged with existing entries. > > it is just that i read somewhere on an acquistion by MS of a 'Desktop > standard' in > which said capability is functional. > > GT > > > > > *********************** > You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to > gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by > logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are > available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ > ************************ > > *********************** > You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web > interface. Archives for the list are available at > //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ > ************************ > *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************ *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************