How To: Report On: All Global Groups In Domain

Applies to:

GroupID 9 - Reports

Business Scenario:

You need a report to view the list of all Global Groups that are present in your domain.

More Information:

The GroupID Reports module is a FREE reporting tool designed to run reports on Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange and Office 365.

Global Group: Can contain users, computers and groups from same domain but NOT universal groups. Can be a member of global groups of the same domain, domain local groups or universal groups of any domain in the forest or trusted domains.

Steps to create the report:

In GroupID Management Console, select Reports > By Category > Groups > All Global Groups In Domain.
In the Actions pane, click Create Report. This launches the Create Report wizard.
On the Introduction page, read the welcome message and click Next.
On the Select View page, select a format for the report and click Next.

By default, the wizard searches the Global Catalog for generating the report. On the Define Scope page, you can limit this scope to a particular container. To do this:

Click Browse to launch the Select Container dialog box and select the required source container.
Select the Include sub containers check box if you want to include sub-containers for the selected container when reporting.
In the Edit criteria box, modify the default LDAP filter as required. This filter is used for selecting items from the selected container.

Click Next to Edit Reports Field page. The Edit Report Fields page shows the list of default fields that will be included in the report.
- To add more fields in the report, click Add. This displays the Add a Field to the Report dialog box where you can select the source field and specify a display name for it.
- You can also remove a field from the report by selecting it and clicking Remove.
- You can change the order of these fields by using the Move Up and Move Down buttons.

Click Next.
On the Select Sort Field page, select the field by which you want to sort the data in the report and click Next.

On the Customize Report page, specify a custom title and the location where you want to save the report. If required, change the default settings.

Click Next.
The Review Selections page shows a summary of the selections made in the previous steps.
- Click Next to generate the report with the existing settings.
- Click Back to go to a previous page and make changes.
Once the wizard completes, click Finish. This will open your generated report in the selected output format.