How to change the default groups when creating new users

[Ninersheaven]

All,

When I create new Users in Active Directory they are members of the Domain Users Security Group by default. How can I make a user a member of the "everybody" group
also when the new user account is created in Active Directory?

Thanks for your help. It's greatly appreciated.


Tony

 

[Seaspray0]

You don't need to. Everyone is a member of the everyone group in NTFS permissions and share permissions. If you look in active directory, you won't even find an "everyone" group.

Start, Help. You'll be surprised what's there. A+/MCP/MCSE/MCDBA

 

[Ninersheaven]

Very interesting. I geuss the reason why I was asking was because we have created an "everyone" distribution list group that recieves newsletters on occasion. We create about 15 new users on a daily basis. It's really a pain having to make them members of the everybody distribution group for every user. Also a little time consuming. Isn't there a hack to the Active Directory Schema that could allow a new user to be members of multiple groups by default.

Thanks for your help,

Tony

 

[Teknoratti]

You could use the dsadd command and populate users and add them to the appropriate groups. You can simply do this in notepad.

By default all users are part of the everyone group. There is nothing you have to do to add users there.

 

[58sniper]

Why don't you create a template user and then just copy that when creating new users?

Pat Richard, MCSE(2) MCSA:Messaging, CNA(2)