Definitions for "Global group"
For Windows NT Advanced Server, a group that can be used in its own domain, servers and workstations of the domain, and trusting domains. In all those places it can be granted rights and permissions and can become a member of local groups. However, it can only contain user accounts from its own domain. Global groups provide a way to create handy sets of users from inside the domain, available for use both in and out of the domain. Global groups cannot be created or maintained on Window NT workstations. However, for Windows NT workstations that participate in a domain, domain global groups can be granted rights and permissions at those workstations, and can become members of local groups at those workstations. See also group, local group.
group that can be used in its own domain, servers and workstations of the domain, and trusting domains. In all of these instances, global groups can be granted rights and permissions and can become a members of local groups. However, they can contain only user accounts from their own domains. Global groups provide a handy way to create sets of users from inside the domain that are available for use both in and out of the domain. See also group, local group.
a collection of user accounts allowed to access resources in one domain