Win32_Group class

The Win32_Group WMI class represents data about a group account. A group account allows access privileges to be changed for a list of users. Example: Marketing2.

The following syntax is simplified from Managed Object Format (MOF) code and includes all of the inherited properties. Properties are listed in alphabetic order, not MOF order.

Syntax

class Win32_Group : Win32_Account
{
  string   Caption;
  string   Description;
  string   Domain;
  datetime InstallDate;
  boolean  LocalAccount;
  string   Name;
  string   SID;
  uint8    SIDType;
  string   Status;
};

Members

The Win32_Group class has these types of members:

• Methods
• Properties

Methods

The Win32_Group class has these methods.

Properties

The Win32_Group class has these properties.

Caption

Data type: string

Access type: Read-only

Short description of the object—a one-line string.

Description

Data type: string

Access type: Read-only

Description of the object.

Domain

Data type: string

Access type: Read-only

Name of the Windows domain to which the group account belongs.

Example: "NA-SALES"

InstallDate

Data type: datetime

Access type: Read-only

Object was installed. This property does not require a value to indicate that the object is installed.

LocalAccount

Data type: boolean

Access type: Read-only

Defined on the local computer. To retrieve only accounts defined on the local computer, create a query that includes the condition LocalAccount=TRUE .

Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0:  This property is not available.

Name

Data type: string

Access type: Read-only

Name of the Windows group account on the domain specified by the Domain property of this class.

SID

Data type: string

Access type: Read-only

Security identifier (SID) for this account. An SID is a string value of variable length used to identify a trustee. Each account has a unique SID issued by an authority, such as a Windows domain, stored in a security database. When a user logs on, the system retrieves the user SID from the database and places it in the user access token. The system uses the SID in the user access token to identify the user in all subsequent interactions with Windows security. When an SID has been used as the unique identifier for a user or group, it cannot be used again to identify another user or group.

SIDType

Data type: uint8

Access type: Read-only

Enumerated values that specify the type of security identifier (SID).

Value	Meaning
1	SidTypeUser
2	SidTypeGroup
3	SidTypeDomain
4	SidTypeAlias
5	SidTypeWellKnownGroup
6	SidTypeDeletedAccount
7	SidTypeInvalid
8	SidTypeUnknown
9	SidTypeComputer

 

Status

Data type: string

Access type: Read-only

Current status of the object. Various operational and nonoperational statuses can be defined. Operational statuses include: "OK", "Degraded", and "Pred Fail" (an element, such as a SMART-enabled hard disk drive, may be functioning properly, but predicting a failure in the near future). Nonoperational statuses include: "Error", "Starting", "Stopping", and "Service". The latter, "Service", could apply during mirror-resilvering of a disk, reload of a user permissions list, or other administrative work. Not all such work is online, yet the managed element is neither "OK" nor in one of the other states.

The values are:

"OK"

"Error"

"Degraded"

"Unknown"

"Pred Fail"

"Starting"

"Stopping"

"Service"

"Stressed"

"NonRecover"

"No Contact"

"Lost Comm"

Remarks

The Win32_Group class is derived from Win32_Account.

Examples

For more information and script examples, see WMI Tasks for Scripts and Applications and the TechNet ScriptCenter Script Repository.

For C++ code examples, see WMI C++ Application Examples.

Requirements

See also

Operating System Classes

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Build date: 11/19/2012