Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I see a lots of regerences to global groups and active directory. can any one please enlighten about these and the ways to create, view groups and its members. what are the specifics that need to be considered. Thanks perlant

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Re: global groups what is it
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 21, 2002 at 10:28 UTC

    On the subject of what Global Groups and Active Directories are, you'll find this a better place to get that information.

    On the subject of how to exploit them from Perl, you may find this a useful starting point


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      I would only reply to this post to say that there was also an excellent introductory article on building an XML-RPC interface to the Active Directory on perl.com here.

       

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