Users with grey hair in ADU&C

[Simon Geary]

In AD Users & Computers, what does it mean when the user account icon has
grey hair instead of the standard black hair?

 

[Tomasz Onyszko]

In AD Users & Computers, what does it mean when the user account icon has
grey hair instead of the standard black hair?

AFAIR this means that it has a lot of members
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281923

 

[Simon Geary]

Thanks Tomasz, in this case it's a standard user account that has grey hair
and not a group. I can't seem to find a kb that explains the meaning.

 

[Tomasz Onyszko]

Thanks Tomasz, in this case it's a standard user account that has grey hair
and not a group. I can't seem to find a kb that explains the meaning.

uuuh, my mistake
I don't know explanation for this but I will look for it

 

[Steven Liu]

Hi Simon,

Thanks for posting here.

Commonly, if a user group which member is greater than 500, the hair of the
icon will be gray.

And, in some situation, the hair of a user will be gray.

Create a new group, adding in a new user and an existing user. Initially,
the existing user appeared normally and the new user appeared grey. After
replication took place (15 to 20 minutes), both users appeared normally.

So, if you network is very large, it will take some or a long time to
replicate this.

We can force the Active Directory sync by using the repadmin.exe. It's a
Windows 2000 support tools utility.

To install the Windows 2000 Support Tools, you can refer to the article.

301423 HOW TO: Install the Windows 2000 Support Tools to a Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=301423

Thanks for using Microsoft Newsgroup!

Sincerely,

Steven Liu [MSFT]

Microsoft Online Partner Support

MCSE 2000

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