Dumping group memberships

Unfortunately there's no built-in tool in Windows Server 2003 that can let you dump all groups and their membership from Active Directory, though there are a few older Resource Kit tools you can fiddle with to do this e.g. showmbrs.exe, addusrs.exe and so on.

A better way of doing this however is to use DumpSec.exe, a tool available from SomarSoft at http://www.somarsoft.com.

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