Creating an Active Directory Group with PowerShell

[scottalanmiller]

In its simplest form, we can use PowerShell to create an Active Directory group quite easily:

New-ADGroup groupname scope

In this case scope would be "global", "local" or "universal".

So for example to make the group "rdsusers" that is a "global" group we would just run...

New-ADGroup rdsusers global

If you want to see the details of the group that you just created, use Get-ADGroup.

[scottalanmiller]

You can quickly add new users to your new group, too...

add-adgroupmember rdsusers jane,bill,bob,mary,kate,ashely

[travisdh1]

Gah, I'm having bad memories of OpenVMS with the different programs for every single little thing.

It does make for a nice looking and short command-line structure tho.

[scottalanmiller]

@travisdh1 said in Creating an Active Directory Group with PowerShell:

Gah, I'm having bad memories of OpenVMS with the different programs for every single little thing.

It does make for a nice looking and short command-line structure tho.

Oh yeah, SO much different than UNIX.