RE: [ActiveDir] Merging Multiple AD Groups

[Thommes, Michael M.]

Hi Frank,     Ignore my previous post; no enough sleep I guess.  I posted a solution to this newsgroup on 7/3/2005.  Check the archives.   Mike Thommes   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:19 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Merging Multiple AD Groups   dsget group "CN=USNY_HR_RO,OU=GGroups,dc=Intara,dc=com" -members | dsmod group "CN=USHR_PROJSAP_RO,ou=GGroups,dc=Intara,dc=com" -addmbr -c   The fact that some users are in both Group 1 & 2 wouldn't cause a problem would it?   cheers Al Al Mulnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm.. the -c should have worked.  Wonder why it didn't in your case? Can you post that syntax that you used?   On 2/9/06, Frank Abagnale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dsmod failed:CN=USHR_PROJSAP_RO,ou=GGroups,dc=Intara,dc=com:T he specified account name is already a member of the local group   Dan - I have also tried the -c switch to no avail.   thanks Al Mulnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you give us an example of the error you're getting?   Al   On 2/9/06, Frank Abagnale <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I have two existing groups:   1. USAT_HR_RO (24 members) 2. USNY_HR_RO (45 members)   I created a new group to merge members of both groups above into the new group.   3. USHR_PROJSAP_RO (0 members)   Some users are members of groups 1 & 2.   I want to copy the users from groups 1 & 2 into the new group 3 so this would contain 69 members.   I tried the following command 1st....   dsget group "CN=USAT_HR_RO,OU=GGroups,dc=Intara,dc=com" -members | dsmod group "CN=USHR_PROJSAP_RO,ou=GGroups,dc=Intara,dc=com" -addmbr   then I tried the following command   dsget group "CN=USNY_HR_RO,OU=GGroups,dc=Intara,dc=com" -members | dsmod group "CN=USHR_PROJSAP_RO,ou=GGroups,dc=Intara,dc=com" -addmbr   but this does not work...does this make sense? Al Mulnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: complains? Can you give more detail? On 2/9/06, Frank Abagnale <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:   I have two global groups which I need to merge the users in both into one new group. What is the best way to do this, I have used DSGET & DSMOD but it complains about e xisting users any ideas? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.     Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses!   Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.     Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses!