How do I change group scope from Global to Domain local?

_{Wednesday, January 26, 2011 5:40 PM}

How do I change the group scope from Global to Domain local? it's grayed out and I cannot recreate the group because members already populated!

_{Wednesday, January 26, 2011 6:02 PM ✅Answered | 3 votes}

In ADUC window wsitch scope to universal and click Apply. After that you will be able to select Domain local. Though this will require domain level Windows Server 2003 Native or higher.

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_{Wednesday, January 26, 2011 6:05 PM}

Thank you, Vadims. Our domain level is 2003 but not native! we also in mixed mode with Novell! I'll see what I can do. Thanks.

_{Wednesday, January 26, 2011 6:14 PM}

Windows 2000 Mixed level don't support universal groups, so you cannot use this trick to convert groups. http://en-us.sysadmins.lv

_{Wednesday, January 26, 2011 6:21 PM}

Windows 2000 Native mode should be sufficient for this operation. Windows 2000 Native introduced Universal group support.

When we speak about native-mode this isn't related to Novell but Windows NT4. As soon as no NT4 Domain Controller are member of the domain a domain can be upgraded to native-mode. The integration with Novell is another story by itself who should be carefully tested if you have to perform any change of functionnality level at the domain and forest levels.

_{Monday, January 22, 2018 6:03 AM}

Is there any reason why we have to change the scope to 'Universal' and then to 'local'?