NT groups in Active Directory

Question

Is the distribution group or distro group an example of NT groups?

I thought NT groups are like security groups that can be used for shared folders.

Answer 1

AFAIK there is no NT Group in Active Directory.Its Winodws NT is another directory service was introduced by Microsoft in 1990. NT uses global and local groups help you organize user accounts and simplify assigning permissions on resources.

Distribution Group and Security Group are types of groups in Active Directory.

Distribution groups Used to create email distribution lists.

Security groups Used to assign permissions to shared resources.

Active Directory is the successor to Windows NT.Windows NT is a directory service network operating system introduced by Microsoft in 1990 Windows NT is fixed and did not support the addition of new objects, AD has a flexible schema that allows the addition of new objects that allowed for better scaling functionality

For more information about WindowsNT Please refer this document.

For Comparison of Active Directory and Windows NT Please do refer this Document for better clarification.