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Minor Bug in Manage Group Accounts

It seems that if you create a active directory group that already exists, it will use all the same settings as it had before, but when you save it, it will get assigned a new order#, and the old number will disappear. Once that number is gone, you can't move any group to a number lower than the missing number, and you can't move any groups above that number either.

Example:

Say I have groups 1-9. I create another group that is the same AD name as group 5. Once that is done, it will create a group 10 with the same settings that 5 had, and the number 5 will disappear from the order. I can rearrange 1-4 and 6-10 how ever i want, but I can't move anyone from 6-10 to a higher order than 6, and 1-4 can't be moved any lower than 4 either.

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bshopp

Thanks for posting, I will get this filed for our QA team to look at and try and reproduce.

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bshopp

Thanks for posting, I will get this filed for our QA team to look at and try and reproduce.

ssadlocha

I actually had this occur yesterday, so I guess it still exists. I ended up deleting both of the similar named groups and adding them back in. Also, for some reason, a user is not getting permissions that I assigned to one of the groups. For example, I have 3 groups, with 1 and 2 having the same name, but being in 2 different AD domains. This user is a member of groups 2 and 3, but not group 1. However, when logging in, he is getting permissions assigned to group 3 and not group 2 as he should.

Denys.Pavlov

Hi Scott,

Did you try changing the group order? I think it can help in your situation. Group with higher priority (order) will be used when user belongs to multiple groups.

For example: if an account belongs to all 3 groups the DOMAIN1\Administrators will be picked.

Use Move Up/ Move Down to set the proper order in your particular situation.

ssadlocha

Denys,

Yes, I tried that. But there is some kind of issue (as reported in the original posting) where you cannot move a group up past a certain point. I have since worked out another solution to this issue by creating a new AD group and using that for my needs after pulling it in. Thanks.

Denys.Pavlov

Hi Scott,

The bug you are talking about is tracked under internal number 178240.

Now you can edit the accounts table manually to set proper values for GroupPriority field. Make sure you have fresh DB backup before any manipulations with DB.

Thanks,

Denys.