{"id":2350,"date":"2013-12-25T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/12\/25\/powertip-add-computer-to-security-group-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-12-25T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-add-computer-to-security-group-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-add-computer-to-security-group-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Add Computer to Security Group with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Active Directory PoweShell cmdlets to add a computer to a security group.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to add a computer to a security group?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Add-ADGroupMember<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, and remember to use the SAM account name on the computer:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">To add a computer called &ldquo;STATION01&rdquo; to a security group called &ldquo;RDPEnabled&rdquo;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">ADD-ADGroupMember &ldquo;RDPEnabled&rdquo; &ndash;members &ldquo;STATION01$&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\"><b>Note<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;The SAM account name has a &ldquo;<b>$<\/b>&rdquo; added to its name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Active Directory PoweShell cmdlets to add a computer to a security group. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to add a computer to a security group? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Add-ADGroupMember&nbsp;cmdlet, and remember to use the SAM account name on the computer: To add a computer called &ldquo;STATION01&rdquo; to a security group called &ldquo;RDPEnabled&rdquo;: ADD-ADGroupMember &ldquo;RDPEnabled&rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Active Directory PoweShell cmdlets to add a computer to a security group. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to add a computer to a security group? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Add-ADGroupMember&nbsp;cmdlet, and remember to use the SAM account name on the computer: To add a computer called &ldquo;STATION01&rdquo; to a security group called &ldquo;RDPEnabled&rdquo;: ADD-ADGroupMember &ldquo;RDPEnabled&rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}