Windows Groups

Account Operators
SID: S-1-5-32-548
TYPE: BUILTIN
Exists only on domain controllers. By default, the group has no members. By default, Account Operators have permission to create, modify, and delete accounts for users, groups, and computers in all containers and organizational units (OUs) of Active Directory except the Builtin container and the Domain Controllers OU. Account Operators do not have permission to modify the Administrators and Domain Admins groups, nor do they have permission to modify the accounts for members of those groups.

Administrators
SID: S-1-5-32-544
TYPE: BUILTIN
After the initial installation of the operating system, the only member of the group is the Administrator account. When a computer joins a domain, the Domain Admins group is added to the Administrators group. When a server becomes a domain controller, the Enterprise Admins group also is added to the Administrators group. The Administrators group has built-in capabilities that give its members full control over the system. The group is the default owner of any object that is created by a member of the group.

Authenticated Users
SID: S-1-5-11
A group that includes all users whose identities were authenticated when they logged on. Membership is controlled by the operating system.

Backup Operators
SID: S-1-5-32-551
TYPE: BUILTIN
By default, the group has no members. Backup Operators can back up and restore all files on a computer, regardless of the permissions that protect those files. Backup Operators also can log on to the computer and shut it down.

Batch
SID: S-1-5-3
A group that implicitly includes all users who have logged on through a batch queue facility such as task scheduler jobs. Membership is controlled by the operating system.

Cert Publishers
SID: S-1-5-domain-517
TYPE: Global Group
Includes all computers that are running an enterprise certificate authority. Cert Publishers are authorized to publish certificates for User objects in Active Directory.

Cert Requesters
SID: S-1-5-domain-517
TYPE: Domain Local Group
Members can request certificates

Creator Group
SID: S-1-3-1
A placeholder in an inheritable ACE. When the ACE is inherited, the system replaces this SID with the SID for the primary group of the object's current owner. The primary group is used only by the POSIX subsystem.

Dialup
SID: S-1-5-1
A group that implicitly includes all users who are logged on to the system through a dial-up connection. Membership is controlled by the operating system.

Distributed COM Users
SID: S-1-5-32-562
TYPE: BUILTIN
An alias. A group for COM to provide computerwide access controls that govern access to all call, activation, or launch requests on the computer.

Domain Admins
SID: S-1-5-domain-512
TYPE: Global Group
Members are authorized to administer the domain. By default, the Domain Admins group is a member of the Administrators group on all computers that have joined a domain, including the domain controllers. Domain Admins is the default owner of any object that is created in the domain's Active Directory by any member of the group. If members of the group create other objects, such as files, the default owner is the Administrators group.

Domain Computers
SID: S-1-5-domain-515
TYPE: Global Group
Includes all computers that have joined the domain, excluding domain controllers.

Domain Controllers
SID: S-1-5-domain-516
TYPE: Global Group
Includes all domain controllers in the domain. New domain controllers are added to this group automatically.

Domain Guests
SID: S-1-5-domain-514
TYPE: Global Group
By default, has only one member, the domain's built-in Guest account.

Domain Users
SID: S-1-5-domain-513
TYPE: Global Group
By default, includes all user accounts in a domain. When you create a user account in a domain, it is added to this group automatically.

Enterprise Admins
SID: S-1-5-root domain-519
TYPE: Universal Group
A group that exists only in the root domain of an Active Directory forest of domains. It is a universal group if the domain is in native mode, a global group if the domain is in mixed mode. The group is authorized to make forest-wide changes in Active Directory, such as adding child domains. By default, the only member of the group is the Administrator account for the forest root domain.

Enterprise Controllers
SID: S-1-5-9
A group that includes all domain controllers an Active Directory directory service forest of domains. Membership is controlled by the operating system.

Everyone
SID: S-1-1-0
A group that includes all users, even anonymous users and guests. Membership is controlled by the operating system.

Group Policy Creators Owners
SID: S-1-5-domain-520
TYPE: Global Group
Authorized to create new Group Policy objects in Active Directory. By default, the only member of the group is Administrator. The default owner of a new Group Policy object is usually the user who created it. If the user is a member of Administrators or Domain Admins, all objects that are created by the user are owned by the group. Owners have full control of the objects they own.

Guests
SID: S-1-5-32-546
TYPE BUILTIN
By default, the only member is the Guest account. The Guests group allows occasional or one-time users to log on with limited privileges to a computer's built-in Guest account.

HelpServicesGroup
Group for the Help and Support Center

Incoming Forest Trust Builders
SID: S-1-5-32-557
TYPE: BUILTIN
An alias. Members of this group can create incoming, one-way trusts to this forest.

Interactive
SID: S-1-5-4
A group that includes all users who have logged on interactively. Membership is controlled by the operating system.

Network
SID: S-1-5-2
A group that implicitly includes all users who are logged on through a network connection. Membership is controlled by the operating system.

Network Configuration Operators
SID: S-1-5-32-556
TYPE: BUILTIN
An alias. Members in this group can have some administrative privileges to manage configuration of networking features.

Performance Monitor Users
SID: S-1-5-32-558
TYPE: BUILTIN
An alias. Members of this group have remote access to monitor this computer.

Performance Log Users
SID: S-1-5-32-559
TYPE: BUILTIN
An alias. Members of this group have remote access to schedule logging of performance counters on this computer.

Power Users
SID: S-1-5-32-548
TYPE: BUILTIN
By default, the group has no members. This group does not exist on domain controllers. Power Users can create local users and groups; modify and delete accounts that they have created; and remove users from the Power Users, Users, and Guests groups. Power Users also can install most applications; create, manage, and delete local printers; and create and delete file shares.

Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access
SID: S-1-5-32-554
A backward compatibility group which allows read access on all users and groups in the domain

Principal Self or Self
SID: S-1-5-10
A placeholder in an ACE on a user, group, or computer object in Active Directory. When you grant permissions to Principal Self, you grant them to the security principal represented by the object. During an access check, the operating system replaces the SID for Principal Self with the SID for the security principal represented by the object.

Print Operators
SID: S-1-5-32-550
TYPE: BUILTIN
Exists only on domain controllers. By default, the only member is the Domain Users group. Print Operators can manage printers and document queues.

RAS and IAS Servers
SID: S-1-5-domain-533
TYPE: Domain Local Group
By default, this group has no members. Computers that are running the Routing and Remote Access service are added to the group automatically. Members of this group have access to certain properties of User objects, such as Read Account Restrictions, Read Logon Information, and Read Remote Access Information.

Remote Desktop Users
SID: S-1-5-32-555
Members in this group are granted the right to logon remotely

Replicators
SID: S-1-5-32-552
Windows NT domains, this group is called Replicators and is used by the directory replication service. In 2K/XP the group is present but is not used.

Schema Admins
SID: S-1-5-root domain-518
TYPE: Universal Group
A group that exists only in the root domain of an Active Directory forest of domains. It is a universal group if the domain is in native mode , a global group if the domain is in mixed mode . The group is authorized to make schema changes in Active Directory. By default, the only member of the group is the Administrator account for the forest root domain.

Server Operators
SID: S-1-5-32-549
TYPE: BUILTIN
Exists only on domain controllers. By default, the group has no members. Server Operators can log on to a server interactively; create and delete network shares; start and stop services; back up and restore files; format the hard disk of the computer; and shut down the computer.

Service
SID: S-1-5-6
A group that includes all security principals that have logged on as a service. Membership is controlled by the operating system.

Terminal Server License Servers
SID: S-1-5-32-561
TYPE: BUILTIN
An alias. A group for Terminal Server License Servers. When Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 is installed, a new local group is created.

Terminal Server Users
SID: S-1-5-13
TYPE: BUILTIN
A group that includes all users who have logged on to a Terminal Services server. Membership is controlled by the operating system.

Users
SID: S-1-5-32-545
TYPE: BUILTIN
After the initial installation of the operating system, the only member is the Authenticated Users group. When a computer joins a domain, the Domain Users group is added to the Users group on the computer. Users can perform tasks such as running applications, using local and network printers, shutting down the computer, and locking the computer. Users can install applications that only they are allowed to use if the installation program of the application supports per-user installation.

Windows Authorization Access Group
SID: S-1-5-32-560
TYPE: BUILTIN
An alias. Members of this group have access to the computed tokenGroupsGlobalAndUniversal attribute on User objects.

To better understand, report or manage Windows groups see: Winzero GroupManagerPlus