I have added my AD group, which is quite large and I don't want to maintain in two locations since it's already being maintained in AD, to the SharePoint group but the panel menu will not show up for the users in the AD group (that is placed in the SharePoint group). If I individaully place users in that SharePoint group the Panel Menu will show up but like I said it's a huge group and I really don't want to add all the users one by one to that group and then maintain it in SharePoint as well as AD since it will always be the same.