What is difference between global and universal groups?

Universal Groups: Universal security groups are most often used to assign permissions to related resources in multiple domains. Members from any domain may be added. Global Groups: Global security groups are most often used to organize users who share similar network access requirements.

What is global group membership?

A global group can be used to assign permissions for access to resources in any domain. The global scope can contain user accounts and global groups from the same domain, and can be a member of universal and domain local groups in any domain.

Can I change a global group to a universal group?

You can convert global groups that are not a member of any other global groups to universal groups. You can only create universal distribution groups in a mixed mode domain.

What are global groups in Active Directory?

Universal groups in Active Directory are useful in multi-domain forests. They enable you to define roles or manage resources that span more than one domain. Each universal group is stored in the domain of where it was created, but its group membership is stored in the Global Catalog and replicated forest-wide.

What is a universal ad group?

What is a universal distribution group?

Mail-enabled universal distribution groups (also called distribution list groups) can be used only to distribute messages. Mail-enabled universal security groups (also called security groups) can be used to distribute messages and to grant access permissions to resources.

Can we add domain local group to global group?

Global groups can be used for everything but you can nest groups and use Domain Local Groups to simplify management. The fact that you cannot add a Domain Local group to a Global group is very useful to enforce the correct inheritance of rights. A common mistake is adding group permissions the wrong way around.

What types of objects can be members of global groups?

A global group can have user and computer object members only from its own domain, but it can have contact object members also from other domains.

Can a domain local group be added to a global group?

Universal groups can be nested within Domain Local groups and within other Universal groups in any domain. A Domain Local group cannot be nested within a Global or a Universal group.