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Adding Local Users to Local Groups

October 3, 2014 Oct 3, 2014 10/3/14

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to add local users to local groups. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Creating local user objects and local group objects is fine, but to be useful, I need to be able to add users to groups. When working with local accounts, I need to use the ADSI type accelerator to facilitate the way ...

Use PowerShell to Create Local Groups

October 2, 2014 Oct 2, 2014 10/2/14

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about creating local groups. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Creating a local group works exactly the same way as creating a local user account (see Use PowerShell to Create Local User Accounts). The process involves the following steps: Create a connection to the local user ...