Powershell and Active Directory: Powershell based GUI Application to create Group in AD.

Hi,

GUI are for dumbs and for lazy likes me or for beginners. Few days ago a new IT guy joined our company, he is kind of fresher. I first which we gave him is to create few Groups in active directory. He is new so i don’t want him to sit on any live server or mess with “Active Directory Users and Computers Console”, for him i wrote a little bit tiny tiny powershell based GUI app.

You can download the script from here : https://dl.dropbox.com/u/17858935/Create_Groups_in_AD_Community.zip

This Script is based on Active Directory module, so before running this script make sure you have RSAT tools installed.

When you run the script first time , it ask you for Username and password, please provide your domain administrator credentials.

After providing the credentials a GUI will open.

On the Top of the GUI i added a little bit of information about the presence of “Active Directory Module”, and if the Module found is equal to “NO” then this GUI wont work.

In Group Name : Provide the desired group name which you want to create.

In Description : Provide a little bit information about the Group.

In Group Scope: Select your desired Group Scope.

In OU: Select the OU location of The Group.

In Server: Choose your nearest domain controller.

Your final screen will be look like below. and now click on create.

That’s all, Our Group is created successfully.

Download Link : https://dl.dropbox.com/u/17858935/Create_Groups_in_AD_Community.zip

Thanks

Aman Dhally

Thanks for reading.

Thanks!

Aman Dhally

Powershell and Active Directory: Powershell Script to create multiple groups in Active Directory and add predefined users in to it.

HI,

Sometime a need arrives when you need to create a few Active Directory groups and add the same members to all the groups.

Today i need to create 20 Group and need to add same users to all the groups. To create 20 Group manually and then add users to it one by one is a hectic job for me .

So again i thought let do it with PowerShell.

To achieve my goal i wrote a simple Powershell script. Make sure before running the script Make sure you have "RSAT" installed and imported the "Active Directory" Module.

You can download the script from : http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Create-Multiple-Groups-in-4118c589

Screenshots
In testing OU i have only one Group Now.



Run the script now and it ask you for Domain Administrator username and password.



Ok...Script is finished with some Messages :)



lets check our OU  and it has 4 New Groups.



Lets Check inside the groups.

 

All is well and done as per our requirements.

You can download the script from : http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Create-Multiple-Groups-in-4118c589

Thanks!

Aman Dhally

   

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