Populating Groups

After you create a group, you can add members to it. The domain level that the domain is running in determines whether this group can have other groups as members.

To add members to an existing group, follow these steps:

1. Launch Server Manager on a machine that has the RSAT AD DS Tools installed.

2. Expand the Tools menu and run Active Directory Users and Computers.

3. Expand the domain folder (in this example, the companyabc.com folder).

4. Select the Users container or the OU that was used in the previous section. In the right pane, right-click the group that was created earlier, and select Properties.

5. Enter a description for the group on the General tab, and then click the Members tab.

6. Click Add to add members to ...

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