PnP PowerShell - Add-PnPGroupMember help

Question

Hi all,

I have created an Azure runbook (PS 7.2) that creates a SharePoint Online site and customises the page webparts.
I am trying to add a user a site member for the newly created site. Using Add-PnPGroupMember in the runbook doesn't do anything:

$SiteMembersGroup = Get-PnPGroup | ? Title -Like '*Members*' | select title    
foreach($member in $SPSiteMembers)
    {
    $member
    Add-PnPGroupMember -LoginName $member -group $SiteMembersGroup   
}          

When I try to test locally (using PnP-Connect), I get the following:

Connect-PnPOnline -url https://contoso.sharepoint.com/abc -Interactive
Add-PnPGroupMember -LoginName ******@test.com

But I get this:

Add-PnPGroupMember : Exception of type 'System.Management.Automation.PSInvalidOperationException' was thrown.
At line:1 char:1
+ Add-PnPGroupMember -LoginName ******@test.com
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Add-PnPGroupMember], PSInvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperation,PnP.PowerShell.Commands.Principals.AddGroupMember

Has anyone had any success with adding users to Site groups using PnP PowerShell? Thanks in advance,
Matt

Answer 1

Hi @Mattps ,

You can add users to a site group using this PnP PowerShell:

#Config Variables
$SiteURL = "https://yourdomain.sharepoint.com/sites/xyzax-version1" $GroupName = "group2"
$UserLoginID = "******@yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com"   #Connect to PnP Online
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL -Credentials (Get-Credential)
 
#sharepoint online powershell to add user to group
Add-PnPGroupMember -LoginName $UserLoginID -Identity $GroupName

Remember to replace the variable $SiteURL, $GroupName, $UserLoginID with your own.

My test result, very successful:

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