What are user groups?

How do you define user groups?

In personal or business computing, a user group is a set of people who have similar interests, goals or concerns. The members have regular meetings where they can share their ideas. Ideally, the members of a user group live in the same geographic area, so they can get together in person.

What is the purpose of user groups?

User groups connect people to share strategies and best practices around a given product, often software. These users are usually from different companies or organizations.

What is a user group on a computer?

To expand on this knowledge, in Windows operating systems, a user group is a collection of multiple user accounts that share the same access rights to the computer and/or network resources and have common security rights. This is why you will often hear IT professionals refer to user groups as security groups.

What are user groups in database?

User Groups are database items that represent a collection of user accounts. They are designed to make it easier to allocate security permissions to multiple user accounts. Typically, you create a User Group to represent a group of users.