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The question is why nest local groups in global groups in this case? Unless the local group is on a different resource than the global group, it makes no sense.



For me, I am trying to exclude the SMS client from being installed in the login script if a computer is a member of a certain group. At my site, each physical location only has the ability to manipulate users and computers in their own OU. So I made a global group PREMCOR_SMS_EXCLUSION, and then created local groups [SITE]_SMS_EXCLUSION under each OU for the local admins to use, with the local groups members of the global group. If this functionality existed, I could do something like:

Code:

if computeringroup('PREMCOR_SMS_EXCLUSION')
    Skip SMS
else
    Install SMS
endif


but instead, my if computeringroup line is off the charts having to include 10 individual OUs. Also, I consider our site to be relatively small, so I can imagine that the value of nested groups would increase with a larger site.

Maybe I am doing something wrong or overlooking something, but this is all I've got right now.

Edited by oobnuker (2005-05-04 09:51 PM)
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