Comments on The EXPTA {blog}: How to Convert Local and Global Groups to Universa...

Thanks. Cant wait to try this. I have converted a ...

2011-12-22T10:30:15.561-08:00

Thanks. Cant wait to try this. I have converted a few but automating the rest will make it so much easier. Just wondering what/if adverse effects it will have

Great info. Helped me understand the WHY behind t...

2011-09-29T13:36:01.915-07:00

Great info. Helped me understand the WHY behind the Universal group requirement and answered a question we had about why some of our DistGroups converted to UniversalSecurityGroups and some did not during our migration to 2010.

You will want to add the -c for the first command ...

2011-09-22T06:15:31.348-07:00

You will want to add the -c for the first command too. If not the command bombs if you have any errors with the only indication being the qty of output lines and the fact that it omits the "dsget succeeded" at the end. With -c you may see a few lines like: "dsget failed:Directory object not found."

I am also going to filter the list & manually change the main top level ones first to avoid as many nesting errors as possible..... Nice article though - thanks :-)

I can't imagine why, unless maybe you mistyped...

2010-11-17T16:43:26.794-08:00

I can't imagine why, unless maybe you mistyped the command. Here it is again:

dsquery group -limit 0 | dsget group -samid -scope -secgrp

If it still fails, try just "dsquery group -limit 0" to see what the output looks like.

Thanks for this, it's really helpful. However,...

2010-11-17T16:33:36.815-08:00

Thanks for this, it's really helpful. However, when I run the first dsquery command to list the groups, it errors out and doesn't list all my groups.

Any ideas as to why?

dsget failed:Directory object not found.

I clarified the AD site terminology used in the ar...

2010-03-19T06:35:39.412-07:00

I clarified the AD site terminology used in the article. Sorry if it was confusing before.

Exchange query's a GC in the Windows site, not...

2010-03-19T02:46:12.630-07:00

Exchange query's a GC in the Windows site, not the Exchange site