We have AD security group with bunch of users and would like to give this group Access to several roles in SCCM 2012. How can i link this AD group to 'Security Roels' or permission in SCCM 2012? 

Basically in the future i simply would like to add user to 'AD group' and this will simply give them appropriate permission. Any help or link will be deeply appreciated. 

You don't link the Active Directory Group or User directly in the Security Roles. In the Security Roles you define the Permission in the Configuration Manager Console itself.

In the Administrative Users Section (above Security Roles) you can add your AD-Group and assign then one or more Security Roles / Collections / S

To link active directory groups to roles/scope you need to go to the administration section of the console.

Expand security, under administrative user you can right click and select add user or group.

now when you select the group you will be able to select the security roles, the scopes and the limiting collection.

You need to understand that the effective security a group will get is not only define by security roles. Scopes and limiting collections play a huge role on what a user can use the right he got from the security role.

Read this to help you get a hand on things: http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2011/09/23/introducing-role-based-administration-in-system-center-2012-configuration-manager.aspx

• Edited by Frederick Dicaire 17 hours 18 minutes ago
• Marked as answer by R Andy 17 hours 4 minutes ago