Chapter 6. Group Management

Once you have user management in place, it is usually time to start looking at group management. In many MIM implementations that we have done, group management capability has been the key reason for choosing MIM. Yet, in order to manage groups, we need to also have the users, who are supposed to be members, managed by MIM.

In this chapter, we will look at the following topics in depth:

  • Group scope and types
  • Modifying MPRs for group management
  • Creating and managing distribution groups
  • Managing groups in AD
  • Installing client add-ins

Group scope and types

We need to understand how groups in MIM work, and since Active Directory is so common, we will use that as a comparison.

Active Directory

If you go into AD and create a group, ...

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