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Add-ADGroupMember - AD Cmdlets Reference

Add-ADGroupMember

Quite an easy one to start with, but quite handy too. Saves a few lines of code from ps1.

Example usage

Add-ADGroupMember -identity "Group name" -members "new group member"
Add-ADGroupMember "Group name" "list of new group member"


Define the parameters

Both identity and members take a range of identifiers for the object. These include "Distinguished Name", "GUID", "SID", and "samaccountname". As all the cmdlets have been designed for interoperability, I find it best to use output from other commands like get-aduser.

In a script

#set the group name
$Group = "All Managers"

#get the objects that you want to add to the group (in this case, users with Manager in the description)
$users = get-aduser -filter {description -like "*Manager*"}

#Add the users to the group
Add-ADGroupMember $Group $users


Powershell without the Management pack

How you generate the distinguishedname (DN) is up to you, I would use my AD searcher and use the $object.path that is returned.

$groupDN = "cn=groupname,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com"
$UserDN = "cn=username,ou=users,dc=domain,dc=com"
$group = [adsi]("LDAP://" + $groupDN)
$group.Add("LDAP://" + $userDN)
$group.setinfo()

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