If you would like your users to be able to add and remove users from the groups they manage, then yes. You will need to install the ADMINPAK.MSI from the server c:\Windows\System32. You will also need to enable the management in the group properties themselves. On the Managed By tab, you need to click Change and then select the user. You also need to check Manager can update membership list. It would also be a good practice to create a custom task pad that will allow them to only add and remove user accounts from there group. This ability should only be for users in the OU that contains the group.
As I'm writing this article, I'm also writing a customization for a PowerShell course I'm teaching next week in Phoenix. This customization deals with Group Policy and PowerShell. For those of you who attend my classes may already know this, but I sit their and try to ask the questions to myself that others may ask as I present the material. I finished up my customization a few hours ago and then I realized that I did not add in how to put a comment on a GPO. This is a feature that many Group Policy Administrators may not be aware of. This past summer I attended a presentation at TechEd on Group Policy. One organization in the crowd had over 5,000 Group Policies. In an environment like that, the comment section can be priceless. I always like to write in the comment section why I created the policy so I know its purpose next week after I've completed 50 other tasks and can't remember what I did 5 minutes ago. In the Group Policy module for PowerShell V3, th
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