Thanks Joe,

this is very useful to us, while waiting for ADUC in SP1 to show the
info :-)

Ole Thomsen 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 1:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to see users group membership 
> in trusted domain
> 
> If you aren't adverse to command line tools, check out 
> memberof on the free
> win32 tools page of www.joeware.net.
> 
> It will rip through and find all group memberships within a domain and
> should also get Universal group memberships through out the 
> domain as well.
> 
> 
> 
> Output looks something like:
> 
> [Mon 04/12/2004 19:52:17.30]
> F:\DEV\cpp\MemberOf>memberof -u joe\$jricha34
> 
> MemberOf V02.00.00cpp Joe Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) February 2003
> 
> Group Memberships:
>   [Local Security] [Administrators]
> CN=Administrators,CN=Builtin,DC=joe,DC=com
>   [Global Security] [Domain Admins] CN=Domain 
> Admins,CN=Users,DC=joe,DC=com
>   [Global Security] [Domain Users] CN=Domain 
> Users,CN=Users,DC=joe,DC=com
>   [Universal Security] [Enterprise Admins] CN=Enterprise
> Admins,CN=Users,DC=joe,DC=com
>   [Local Security] [Users] CN=Users,CN=Builtin,DC=joe,DC=com
> 
> [Mon 04/12/2004 19:57:16.93]
> F:\DEV\cpp\MemberOf>
> 
> 
> Actually trying to work out a good efficient way to get 
> memberships in all
> domains with default AD but it is a thorny problem. Best bet 
> is to suck
> everything into an AD/AM and do queries across that. 
> Alternatively go SQL
> though you get away from the ease of use and lightness of LDAP. 
> 
> 
>   joe
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ole Thomsen
> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 4:13 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to see users group membership 
> in trusted
> domain
> 
> The operators managing the users are not people that i would 
> ask to use
> adsiedit.
> 
> Yes please, I would like to know more about the tool.
> 
> Ole Thomsen
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Grillenmeier, Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 3:05 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to see users group membership in 
> > trusted domain
> > 
> > as mentioned, using the native tool the visibility depends on the 
> > group types.  and it seems like you preferr viewing the 
> > group-memberships per user.  from a child domain's GC 
> you'll at least 
> > be able to view the UG memberships of your parent domain via 
> > ADSIEDIT.MSC => look at the memberOf attribute.
> > On a parent domain's GC you could then also use ADSIEDIT, 
> configure it 
> > to connect to the child domain's GC partition and view the 
> properties 
> > of user of your child domain the way that it's stored on the parent 
> > domain's GC => in the memberOf attribute of the user you'll see the 
> > UGs and DLG memberships of the parent domain.
> > 
> > We're building a tool right now (basically done, but 
> internal beta is 
> > still running), that collects all this information (i.e. the links 
> > between users and groups etc.) centrally into an SQL or 
> MSDE database.
> > The tool then allows you to view all the groups that a user 
> belongs to 
> > in a forest in a nice UI (i.e. it will not only show you the 
> > memberhips in the domain's own groups, but also all UGs and 
> DLGs from 
> > other domains in your forest). The main purpose though is not for 
> > viewing these memberships - it is targeted at helping you 
> > automatically restore the memberships in case you've lost 
> them due to 
> > restoring accidentally deleted objects in AD.
> > 
> > Let me know if you want to know more and I'll put you on my list.
> > 
> > /Guido
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ole Thomsen
> > Sent: Samstag, 10. April 2004 12:51
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to see users group membership in 
> > trusted domain
> > 
> > Thanks for saving my sanity, Guido, I have for days been 
> seeking the 
> > missing userright or setting in ADUC to show the memberships :-)
> > 
> > Are there any easier method to show/set these memberships than 
> > cruising through all the parent domain groups?
> > 
> > And BTW, copying a user no longer copies the parent domain group 
> > memberships - argh!
> > 
> > Ole Thomsen
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Grillenmeier, Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:49 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to see users group membership in 
> > > trusted domain
> > > 
> > > works as designed.  Especially if you're using Domain 
> Local Groups 
> > > (DLG). But in 2003 you can even not see the UG 
> memberships of other 
> > > domains in ADUC.  This will likely be "fixed" in SP1 as
> > only GCs would
> > > have the potential to show UG-memberships from other 
> domains anyways 
> > > (a filter was added in 2003 so that only groups of own domain
> > show up on
> > > the MemberOf tab of an object - in SP1 you're supposed to have a 
> > > choice).
> > > 
> > > Realize a "non-GC" DC doesn't know of the UG memberships of
> > the other
> > > domains and neither a DC nor a GC will show you the DLG
> > memberships of
> > > the other domains - as these are not replicated to the GC.
> > > 
> > > And wait until you try to recover accidentally deleted 
> users in your 
> > > environment and recover them. Then not seeing the
> > memberships will be
> > > the least of your worries => they'll actually be missing from the 
> > > other groups...  Read this whitepaper if you want to know more:
> > > http://www.aelita.com/library/whitepapers/10_Things_to_Know_ab
> > > out_Active
> > > _Directory_Recovery.pdf
> > > 
> > > /Guido
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Ole Thomsen
> > > Sent: Mittwoch, 7. April 2004 00:37
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [ActiveDir] Unable to see users group membership 
> in trusted 
> > > domain
> > > 
> > > I have two AD domains, of which one is subdomain to the other.
> > > 
> > > In the child domain, most users are members of a number 
> of security 
> > > groups in the parent domain.
> > > 
> > > All was well until recently, but after raising the domain 
> and forest 
> > > level to 2003 i can no longer see the child domain users
> > parent domain
> > > membership under the user property "Member of". 
> > Furthermore, from this
> > > property sheet i cannot add the user to parent domain
> > groups anymore.
> > > 
> > > They are still members, everything works as expected, and 
> i can add 
> > > the users to groups from within the group property - but 
> that is a 
> > > hell of a job to cruise through the all groups everytime 
> a user is 
> > > created....
> > > 
> > > Please help :-)
> > > 
> > > Ole Thomsen
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