adding user in group

Question

We have Group called Domain\Tid in SharePoint site and this group is from AD.
I want one particular user to add in the group.

is there any power shell command for that? if yes please share it. Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi @sns ,

In SharePoint, AD group is different from SharePoint group. AD group is seen as a normal user in SharePoint.

As a workaround, you could create a SharePoint group and add an AD group inside of the SharePoint group. This way, if you need to add additional users to your site in addition to those that already exist in AD group, you can add them easily by adding individual users to the SharePoint group, alongside the AD group. active-directory-groups-sharepoint-groups

Below is powerShell to add user to a SharePoint group:

New-SPUser -UserAlias "domain\user" -Web "http://sharepoint.crescent.com/sites/marketing" -Group "Marketing Owners"  

Reference: add-user-to-sharepoint-group-with-powershell

Besides, for the error when you post new question. I think you may have some codes in your question, you could use txt file to upload your log/code. You'd better submit a feedback here using the tag qna-feedback : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/topics/qna-feedback.html

Answer 2

You need to have Active Directory Tool installed in your machine or Active Directory access in order to add AD user in the AD Group, below powershell commands will help you to add the user.

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

Add-ADGroupMember -Identity "Sharath_Test" -Member Domain\username

Get-ADGroupMember "Sharath_Test"

Thanks & Regards,

Answer 3

Agree with Sharath. You could use command Add-ADGroupMember to add one user to to an Active Directory group. Reference: add-adgroupmember

Note: you need to run this command in your AD server. Or you have to install Active Directory Management Tools in the sever.