{"id":2637,"date":"2013-10-30T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/10\/30\/powertip-create-an-active-directory-group-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-create-an-active-directory-group-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-create-an-active-directory-group-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Create an Active Directory Group with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to create a security group in Active Directory.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a security group in Active Directory?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, In Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2, use the New-ADGroup<\/strong> cmdlet.<\/p>\n

To create a new global group in the default Users<\/strong> folder of Active Directory called “Finance”:<\/p>\n

NEW-ADGroup –name “Finance” –groupscope Global<\/p>\n

If it needs to exist in different path in Active Directory, specify the path by its distinguished name:<\/p>\n

NEW-ADGroup –name “Finance” –groupscope Global –path “OU=Offices,DC=Contoso,DC=local”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to create a security group in Active Directory.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a security group in Active Directory?  In Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2, use the New-ADGroup cmdlet. To create a new global group in the default Users folder of Active Directory called “Finance”: NEW-ADGroup –name “Finance” –groupscope […]<\/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":[7,56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-active-directory","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to create a security group in Active Directory.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a security group in Active Directory?  In Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2, use the New-ADGroup cmdlet. To create a new global group in the default Users folder of Active Directory called “Finance”: NEW-ADGroup –name “Finance” –groupscope […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","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=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/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=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}