Was asked to delete a legacy "distro" list however I noticed its a Universal Security group. Is there a way to determine if its being used for anything other than a distribution list as we believe it was? I would like to avoid deleting it and finding out it was being used.
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Depending on your environment this can be a mess to figure out as mentioned before. Alternatively, you could leave the group in place as is, and simply remove the mail attributes so that it is no longer a DL as required without impacting any other use of the group. Security groups are not usable for mail until mail-enabled with an address within the messaging system.
That's right no easy way other than going through all your file servers, apps servers, web servers etc, where ever you can grant access by security group. Other than dumpsec, you can also try these tools as well:
You can use a free tool "SubInACL" from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/D
SubInACL is a command-line tool that enables administrators to obtain security information about files, registry keys, and services, and transfer this information from user to user, from local or global group to group, and from domain to domain.
You can use a free tool "AccessChk" here:
http://technet.microsoft.c
This tool shows you the accesses the user or group you specify has to files, Registry keys or Windows services
You can use a free tool "AccessEnum" here:
http://technet.microsoft.c
This tool shows all the security by given a local or UNC path of the share.
You can also use ShareEnum utility to find out all the shares you have in your domains within a few minutes.
Download it from here: http://technet.microsoft.c
or if you want to spend some $ on another product specifically for file server from ScriptLogic:
http://www.scriptlogic.com
Or if you have the more $ to spend, you can get the ESR from ScriptLogic:
http://www.scriptlogic.com
This product is more than just for file/folder permission, it is also to report Active Directory object status etc.
But in the future, whenever you create a group, you should add a note to the group object in AD to show where the group is being used, like a UNC path would be helpful with this kind of concerns..
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by: mkline71Posted on 2009-07-27 at 16:24:25ID: 24956811
No easy way other than going through all your file servers and machines and going through the ACL's on all those. There are tools like dumpsec that can help with that and you will find scripts on the net that can help.
If you are pretty sure it was not used on any ACLs you can change it to a distro list and if you hear of issues you can change it back to security. Obviously the first way is better.
Thanks
Mike