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| Subject: Re: backing up local users and groups on a member server
| Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:04:36 -0500
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| We have Global groups setup in AD, but the local ones were setup by my
| manager. He had read somewhere this was the correct way to do it, but I
| think it was based more on NT4 or when doing a migration from. We plan
to
| do away with the local groups once we upgrade the domain to Win2k3.
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| "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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| | >> Where and how do I backup the local users and groups on a Windows 2003
| >> member server?
| >>
| >> Our DCs are still Win2k, but our member servers are running Win2k3.
One
| >> of the members is a file server with many locally created groups.
| >> The local groups hold security groups from our domain which we use to
| >> limit access to various file shares on the member server. If the
| >> server fails, we have a backup of the shares and thier data, but
| >> where and how do we restore the local groups and thier containing
| >> domain security group members? Is it in the local system state? Is
| >> it stored in Active Directory? There's at least 20 of these locally
| >> created groups to restore in the event of a failure.
| >> Thanks in advance.
| >
| > System state.
| >
| > But why aren't you using AD groups for everything?
| >
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