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The WOLFTECH domain has a number of special groups to apply security policies and provide access to resources. This document explains the function of these groups and their intended memberships.

Top Level Groups

Group Name	Description
WT-<OU>-<NAME>	Managed groups. The groups are defined using the WolfTech Managed Groups Tool.
NCSU-ACS Users	This group is given Read access to the ACS Q Drive on the ACS domain. A GPO (NCSU-ACS Users) is linked at the People OU and is filtered to this group to automatically mount the Q drive. Only staff who need access to the ACS Q Drive should be members of this group.NOTE: OU Admins should not move their local "ACS Users" group as this will cause this connection to fail.
NCSU-Allow RIS	A GPO (Domain-Allow RIS) is linked to the domain root and filtered to this group to allow members of this group to use RIS to reinstall computers. Members of NCSU-Departmental OU Admins are a member of this group.
NCSU-Computers	All computers under the NCSU OU are a member of this group.
NCSU-Departmental OU Admins	All OU admins are a member of this group. Members of this group are delegated Read access to all group policy objects.
NCSU-Desktops	All desktop computers under the NCSU OU are a member of this group.
NCSU-Laptops	All laptop computers under the NCSU OU are a member of this group. A GPO (Domain-Laptop Policy) is linked at the domain root and filtered to this group to set laptop specific policies.
NCSU-Software Packagers	Members of this group have Full access to the NCSU software packages share (\\wolftech\files\common\ncsu\packages) and Full access to the SW-NCSU and FW-NCSU GPOs.
NCSU-User Account Managers	Members of this group have Full access to the People OU.

ECE Departmental Groups

The following special groups are used in the ECE departmental OU. This is provided as a suggestion to other departments.

Group Name	Description
ECE-ACS Users	This group is a member of NCSU-ACS Users that gives Read access to the ACS Q Drive on the ACS domain. Only staff who need access to the ACS Q Drive should be members of this group.
ECE-Allow RIS	This groups is a member of NCSU-Allow RIS that allows members to use RIS to reinstall computers. This group is useful for users who need to be able to use RIS, but are not OU admins.
ECE-Computer Admins	This group is a member of the local Administrators group on all computers in the ECE OU. Members of this group have Administrator priveleges on all ECE computers, but no special domain priveleges. ECE-OU Admins is a member of this group.
ECE-Computers	All computers within the ECE OU are members of this group.
ECE-Desktops	All desktops within the ECE OU are members of this group.
ECE-Enable Remote Assistance	A GPO (ECE-Enable Remote Assistance) is linked at the root of the ECE OU and filtered to this group that enables Unsolicited Remote Assistance on all members of this group.
ECE-Enable Remote Desktop	A GPO (ECE-Enable Remote Desktop) is linked at the root of the ECE OU and filtered to this group that enables Remote Desktop on all members of this group.
ECE-Laptops	All laptops within the ECE OU are members of this group.
ECE-OU Admins	This group is delegated Full access to the ECE OU.
ECE-Users	All ECE users are a member of this group. This includes students who have access to teaching lab computers.
ECE-IT.Users	The regular user accounts of IT staff members are members of this group. This group is a member of all ECE computers local Users group. This allows IT staff members to logon using regular user credentials.
ECE-Remote Assistants	This group is referenced in the ECE-Enable Remote Assistance GPO to authorize users to provide Unsolicited Remote Assistance.
ECE-Software Installers	Members of the group have Full access to the ECE software share (\\wolftech\files\ece\software).
ECE-Software Packages	Members of this group have Full access to the ECE packages share (\\wolftech\files\ece\packages).