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Category: Active Directory

21
Mar
2016

Adding a user to an AD Security Group with PowerShell

You get a helpdesk ticket that a user needs to be added to an AD group. A quick command in PowerShell is all you need. By the time Active Directory Users and Computers opens, you’re closing the ticket.

Open a PowerShell prompt:

Add-ADGroupMember NameOfADGroup userID09
To confirm the account is there, run this:
Get-ADGroupMember NameOfADGroup | select SamAccountName | sort-object SamAccountName -descending

Be sure to import the Active Directory module.

If using Windows 7 or Windows 10 download the Remote Server Administration Tools & Install.

If your using a server, add the feature, Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell.

If you need to delete a user from a group:

Remove-ADGroupMember NameOfADGroup userID09

01
May
2013

Adding AD Users and Computers to Windows 2008R2

categories: Active Directory, Active Directory Users and Computers, Feature, Remote Server Administration Tools, Server Manager, Windows, Windows 2008 R2

I’m human. Someone asked me how to get to Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) on a 2008 R2 and my first response was, look under Administrative Tools. Well, as luck would have it, it’s not there. Where is it, MMC? admintools? adminpak? I wasn’t sure. This is a new server and not under my purview so I just assumed it was there. Sometimes I think I’ve forgotten more that I remember, but then, It dawned on me, this is 2008R2 and EVERYTHING is either a role or a feature.

Problem

How to add Active Directory Users and Computers to a Windows 2008 R2 Server

Solution

Launch Server Manager
Click on/Expand Features
Click Add Features
Scroll down and expand Remote Server Administration Tools
- Expand Role Administration Tools + AD DS and AD LDS Tools
- Select AD DS Snap-Ins and Command-line Tools
Click Next. Confirm installation selections and Click install.
Click Close when the installation succeeds.