Windows® Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

8-5: Create Shadow Groups

Solution overview

Type of solution	Scripts
Features and tools	Group membership, user and computer objects, fine-grained password policies, Group_Shadow.vbs
Solution summary	Create groups with memberships that reflect the objects in one or more OUs and that are dynamically updated.
Benefits	The ability to scope security, Group Policies, password settings objects, software deployment, and other technologies that are reliant on security groups rather than your OU structure.

Introduction

You've no doubt heard my message in this resource kit—management is all about applying configuration, security, and other elements to scopes of users and computers, and scopes are best managed as groups. Sometimes, you have a choice about how to scope ...