Add in members to a group in the previous lessons with so how to create groups an Active Directory.
How to search for them and how to change group object information.
Groups are useless without members in them.
And this lesson will concentrate on how to add both user accounts and computer accounts to security
groups and Active Directory like any other operations Active Directory module has a command led to add
members to groups they get a group member command lab does this for you to add a member to the group
you add a group member command led with a member parameter.
Use the same account name of the member or user for reasons of addition.
Add in a single user account to a security group is very straightforward with the ad there's a group
member command led as shown in the following command.
We can run and we can run it at a D.
Group member identity.
We have to specify the group to which we are adding the user.
In my case it's Group 1.
Is read in quotes and members.
In this case it's only one member club user one multiple users can be added to security groups by passing
their names to the members attribute as shown in their follow in command.
Let's run it at the ADA.
Group member identity group 1 Read and members will add lap User 1 2 and 3 to this group.
But if you want to add a single user to multiple groups at the same time this could be achieved also
by using the following command to specify the groups like task group.
Group 1 The Shred pipe it to the following command 4 reach.
Do this action add a group member.
Identity is taken from the previous part of this command from the part before the pipe.
In my case it's test group and group one this read and we are read in the members.
In my case it's only one member LEP user 3.
So once again the precedent command will add the lap user 3 user account to the test group and group
dest read groups.
Here we pass group name to the identity parameter of the ad a group member command led one after the
other to add lap user 3.
One of the common use cases for system administrators is that they will have a list of users to be added
in a text file when you have such a requirement.
Add in the users to a specific group is as simple as the following command.
We add a new variable which is called user base and which is equal guard content command led and we
are getting the content from the file we specify in my case it's users that Steve file which is located
on C drive in P S folder and after that we run the following command at a group member of the group
to which we read and so identity as test group and members whom we are read into this group and we are
using the variable we have added before users wearable.
Now let's see how to add all user from an organizational unit to a security group by using the following
command.
Again we are red and wearable users.
We are getting all Active Directory users from lap organizational unit so the command looks like that
get this a user search base.
The path to the O you we are getting users from.
Then we are filtering the results with a filter parameter and we have filter and by the following property
object class which should be equal to a user and we run the following command ad.
There's a group member identity test group and members is taken from the variable user.
So the first line in this code will query all users and give given organizational unit and store the
details in the user wearable the same variable is passed to to the members parameter of the ADA.
Member command led in the second line.
This kind of additional command lattice.
Useful if you have an o you structure based on departments buildings and offices and you want to add
to all the sales users for example to one security group or all the users in the same building to another
security group and so on.
Similarly you can copy members from one security group to another by following a simple command the
command looks like this.
Again we are ready and members variable which is equal to get a group member identity task group.
Another line is at a group member identity test group.
Thus copy and members is taken from members variable.
The first line reads the membership details of the test group security group and store it in a variable
then the same variable is passed to the HDD sorry at does a group member command led to add members
to a new security group which is called test group.
This copy here you should know that the target group should be created beforehand.
If you haven't created the target group the operation will fail.
Now let's check the results of these commands in active directory user centered computer console to
see it in graphical user interface.
So let's open Active Directory Users and Computers find their group.
Group one which was used in the first example and see the members of this group.
Lap User 1 should be here.
The second example was adding three users to this group and as you can see all users are here as well.
Lib User 1 lap USER 2 and lap user 3.
We also added lap user 3 to test group and group 1 dash read.
So let's find test group and check.
Members of this group as you can see lap user 3 is here as well.
He also populated this group with the members from users Dota 2 file and all of them are here.