Re: User group

William A. J. wrote:
I need an advice on how to automatically add users who log on to a
Windows XP workstation in a domain to a certain user group (in this case I
need them to be part of Power Users group). I found Group Policy
had no option for this.

You 'found' incorrectly.
How did you research to 'find' that group policy could not do this?

Search using Google!
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To use restricted groups:
- Open Active Directory Users and Computers.
- Browse to the OU that will contain the computer account objects
- Open "Properties"
- Select the Group Policy Tab
- Create a new Group Policy Object
- Edit the new object
- In the Group Policy MMC, browse to:
Computer Configuration/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Restricted
Groups
- Right-Click and choose "Add Group"
- The group name you enter will be the group that is restricted ("Power
Users")
- Select the group and choose the allowed members. ("Authenticated Users")

I recommend against making all users power users. Too much power. Leave
them as users.

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