Can anyone give me some guidance on what PowerShell command I can use to import all the members of a distribution group in Active Directory into a security group?
you could just use this (use your group names for "distributiongroup" and "securitygroup"):
Get-ADGroupMember -Identity distributiongroup | ForEach-Object { Add-ADGroupMember -Identity securitygroup -Members $_ }
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To add to stephanb's answer, if you have nested groups under the distribution group you are attempting to copy from, you will need to add the -recursive parameter in order to pull in the users from those sub-groups.
Here is an example that worked for me:
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity 'securitygroup' -Members (Get-ADGroupMember -Identity 'distributiongroup' -Recursive)
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I'm currently stuck getting a PowerShell error when trying to run a script I have written (Read stolen from the internet)
What I am trying to achieve is to search for a specific users e-mail address within one of the multiple O365 distribution Groups and then remove that user from the group if the group is one that meets the criteria.
The groups are all prefixed with the text "EX_SIG" and I am able to identify the one group the user is a member of but I'm struggling to then translate this into remove the user from the identified group.
I am a complete PowerShell newbie so any help would be appreciated.
Code:
$UAC_email = "sarah.connor#skynet.com"
$UAC_EX_GROUP = Get-DistributionGroup -identity "EX_SIG*" | where { (Get-DistributionGroupMember $_.name | foreach {$_.PrimarySmtpAddress}) -contains "$UAC_email"} | FT name -HideTableHeaders
Remove-DistributionGroupMember -Identity $UAC_EX_GROUP -Member "$UAC_email"
Error:
Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Identity' because it is null.
The FT (Format-Table) cmdlet is likely causing most of your problems. You shouldn't try to use output from formatting cmdlets except with out-* commands.
Format- cmdlets output "typesetting" objects which the host uses to format the display, not usable objects for the pipeline.
$UAC_email = "sarah.connor#skynet.com"
$UAC_EX_GROUP = Get-DistributionGroup -identity "EX_SIG*" | where { (Get-DistributionGroupMember $.name | foreach {$.PrimarySmtpAddress}) -contains "$UAC_email"}
Remove-DistributionGroupMember -Identity $UAC_EX_GROUP -Member "$UAC_email"
Try this as it is a lot cleaner than the code you posted but should accomplish your goal.
$UAC_email = "sarah.connor#skynet.com"
#Get list of distribution groups where identity matches "EX_SIG*" and the email address your looking for is in the list of the group members's primary smtp addresses
$UAC_EX_GROUPS = (Get-DistributionGroup -Identity "EX_SIG*") | Where-Object{(Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity $_.Name).PrimarySmtpAddress -contains $UAC_email}
#Iterate over returned groups and remove the member from the group. I put a WHATIF in there so you can verify the output before just running it. You can also pipe this directly before the closing '}' in the previous command but it's less readable that way
$UAC_EX_GROUPS | Remove-DistributionGroupMember -Identity $_.Name -Member $UAC_email -WhatIf
I am trying to add a bulk of users from a CSV file to a MsolGroup via PowerShell. I have only the username of the users. (User.name)
This is what I tried:
1. Read the CSV file with the userName and get the Msol user object from it:
$group | % {Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName $_.name}
2. Add these ObjectID's to the requested MsolGroup:
$group | % {Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName $_.name} | % {Add-MsolGroupMember -GroupObjectId 86bbcf6b-feb6-4fe3-a9db-eb1e0b81ed55 -GroupMemberObjectId $_.objectid
This is the Error I get:
Add-MsolGroupMember : You cannot update mail-enabled groups using this
cmdlet. Use Exchange Online to perform this operation.
Is there a better way to do it? What am I doing wrong?
As noted in the error message, this cmdlet will only work against "regular" security groups. For mail-enabled security groups, use the Exchange remote PowerShell and Add-DistributionGroupMember
Refer documentation
We could use
$group | % {Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName $.name} | % {Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "86bbcf6b-feb6-4fe3-a9db-eb1e0b81ed55" -Member $.objectid
I have users and groups in the Users folder of a Windows 2012 Server. I want to check if a user is a member of a group and if not, add to the group. To list the members of a group, I've tried everything including:
get-adgroupmember -identity "cs99group"
which produces the error
get-adgroupmember : Cannot find an object with identity: 'cs99group' under: ...
The following works perfectly
get-adgroupmember -identity "Administrators"
Of course the Administrators group is in the Builtin folder and cs99group is in the Users folder. What am I doing wrong?
Can you try with the parameter -recursive added?
Does the command Get-AdGroup work?
If so, try Get-AdGroup "cs99group" | get-adgroupmember
I am in an organization with thousands of users and some of them are not in the correct Active Directory group. I can access most of the groups through dsquery Rundll dsquery.dll OpenQueryWindow, but the way the groups are configured, it takes forever to check. Microsoft doesn't provide any information I've seen to export this to a text file or other source, but there must be a better way to get this information.
I assume you mean organizational unit (OU) instead of group.
Use PowerShell. You do need RSAT installed. Then you can run:
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "ou=testou,dc=iammred,dc=net"
Change the OU to the OU you want to look at.
Or if you really did mean group:
Get-ADGroupMember -identity "GROUPNAME" -Recursive
I'd like to get a list of all people with admin privileges with powershell. What is the most optimal way to accomplish that?
Which user property should I look at?
get-adgroupmember 'domain admins' | select name,samaccountname
get-adgroupmember 'enterprise admins' | select name,samaccountname
I realize this question is old, and Noah's answer helped get me in the ballpark. I just want to expand on it a little bit more. If you have multiple domains in your environment you can do something like this:
Get-ADGroupMember -Server "domain-name-here" -Identity "Domain Admins" -Recursive | Select Name
If you want to also see if which accounts are enabled or disabled:
Get-ADGroupMember -Server "domain-name-here" -Identity "Domain Admins" -Recursive | Get-ADUser | Select Name, Enabled
Or if you only want to see enabled accounts:
Get-ADGroupMember -Server "domain-name-here" -Identity "Domain Admins" -Recursive | get-aduser -Properties Description | Where {$_.Enabled -eq $true} | Select Name
dsquery * -filter (samaccoutname="domain admin") | dsget group -members -expand >>RESULT.txt
The other examples show how to get the easiest display of who has "admin" access to a domain but don't overlook the fact that "admin" access can be directly assigned to any user or group object on the domain object itself. Simply checking for members of "domain admins" and "enterprise admins" is not going to show you the whole picture.
As a starting point you could start with this and then investigate further:
(Get-ACL 'AD:\DC=MYDOMAIN,DC=local').Access | Format-Table IdentityReference,ActiveDirectoryRights,AccessControlType -AutoSize