Powershell and Active Directory: Create a new group in Active Directory using Powershell.

 

Hi,

Yesterday one of my users asked me to create a few user group for him. Normally to create a new group i open "DSA.MSC" or "Active Directory users and computers" and create a desired group. This time i thought i would create a new group using PowerShell.

To create a new group in Active Directory make sure you have RSAT installed.

Lets Start.

 Make sure you have "RSAT" installed on you laptop.

Now Import the Active Directory module.

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

 

..

ok, Module is imported,,

we are going to use "New-ADGroup" cmdlet.

I want a group Name to be  "Singers", i my OU "Testing", the Group category in my case is "Security" and the Group Scope is "Global". I choose a -Server parameter because my main DC in located outside of Delhi and then using -Credential we are providing domain administrator username and password becasue you need administrator privileges to create a group in Active Directory.

The command should be like below.

New-ADGroup -Path "OU=testing,DC=localdc,DC=com" -Name "Singers" -GroupCategory Security -GroupScope Global -Server "local-dc" -Credential localdomain\administrator

After run the Command it is asking for Domain Administrator Credentials. Provide them.

 

Ok. Command run successfully without errors.

 

Let's check out OU "testing" and see if this group is created there.

Bingo.. all Done :)

 

 

Thanks for reading.

Thanks

Aman Dhally