Add user to multiple groups in powershell

carlolslinares · 2020-02-26T23:55:22.000Z

Hello I am a powershell beginner and need some help with a script. Below is what i have so far

I am trying to have it so that it used the credentials of the IT admins, takes all the groups and adds the user of our choice to them and then reads out the list it just added to,

I may be missing Select-Object -Property samaccountname at the end im not sure

##Import Active directory module so you can use the tools

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

Ask for credentials, please use your SU credentials

$cred=Get-Credential

Prompt for user being added to the basic groups

($userbeingadded =Read-Host -Prompt “Enter User Name to add to groups”)

List of basic groups for a regular user at Alteryx

$basicgroupslist = “SG_group”,“group List”,“group Protected”,“group Users”,“groupProduction”,“group_Production”,
“groupAccess”,“SG_1_Production”,“SG_2t_Production”,“SG_3_Production”,“SG_4_Production”,
“SG_5_Production”,“SG_6_Production”,“SG_7_Production”,“SG_8_Production”,
“SG_9_Production”,“SG_10_Production”,“SG_11_Production” | ForEach-Object

{Add-ADGroupMember -Identity $basicgroupslist -Members $userbeingadded } | -Credential $cred

Neally · 2020-02-27T00:01:30.000Z

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Neally · 2020-02-27T00:06:33.000Z

ITcaliguy18:

I am trying to have it so that it used the credentials of the IT admins, takes all the groups and adds the user of our choice to them and then reads out the list it just added to,

Why does it need admin credentials? the user has no rights to run it?

$grouplist  = "group1","group2","group3" # etc
$admincreds = (Get-credential)
$Member     = read-host "Enter Username to add"

foreach($group in $grouplist){
    add-adgroupmember -Identity $group -Members $member -Credential $admincreds -verbose
}

something like this?

carlolslinares · 2020-02-28T00:05:16.000Z

I think that is what I’m looking for. Thanks so much this helped I will test it out