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I have SCCM setup to can an AD OU for groups and use the membership of a group to build a collection. I have a main OU with groups in it. Inside that group, I want to have other groups that belong to different OUs so that the local admins can add computers to it. When I do this, computers inside the nested group don't show up. Do I need to have my AD System Group Discovery discover all the groups in the different OU? If I tell it to "Include Groups", shouldn't it scan the nested groups even if it isn't part of the container?

 

For example, my AD looks like this:

 

Domain

-Groups 1

-Site A

--Groups A

--Computers A

-Site B

--Groups B

--Computers B

-Site C

--Groups C

--Computers C

 

Groups 1 is the OU that is scanned in the AD System Group Discovery method. The search options are Recursive and Include groups. One of the groups in Group 1 includes groups that are in Groups A, Groups B and Groups C.

 

I have AD System Discovery setup to scan computers in Computers A, Computers B, Computers C.

 

My collection is working fine and if I add the computer directly to the group in Groups 1 it shows up but if I add it to a group in Groups A (that is then a member of Groups 1) it doesn't show up.

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Use a WMI browser on your SCCM primary site to pull a list of SMS_R_System instances, and examine the SystemGroupName property on them. This should tell you if nested group information is getting pulled or not. I suppose I wouldn't be surprised if the discovery method were not pulling nested group info.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Cheers,

Trevor Sullivan

http://trevorsullivan.net

http://twitter.com/pcgeek86

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Use a WMI browser on your SCCM primary site to pull a list of SMS_R_System instances, and examine the SystemGroupName property on them. This should tell you if nested group information is getting pulled or not. I suppose I wouldn't be surprised if the discovery method were not pulling nested group info.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Cheers,

Trevor Sullivan

http://trevorsullivan.net

http://twitter.com/pcgeek86

 

Forgive the stupidity, but how do I do that?

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Forgive the stupidity, but how do I do that?

Sorry, I should have clarified on that.

 

You can use the built-in wbemtest.exe in Windows.

 

1. Open wbemtest.exe (and click Asynchronous)

2. Connect to the root\sms\site_abc WMI namespace

3. Hit "Enum Instances"

4. Type "SMS_R_System" in the class name field

5. Randomly double-click a few instances in the list returned and examine the value of the SystemGroupName property

 

Hope this helps.

 

Cheers,

Trevor Sullivan

http://trevorsullivan.net

http://twitter.com/pcgeek86

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