I have simple requirement to disable/deactivate group in AD. There are plenty of options for AD users & Computers but did not see anything related to groups.
Basically, We want to remove all member from the group and set group to InActive or disabled. I can think of below approach but not sure if it is right way to do it.
Remove-ADGroup is not option in our case due to some security and audit concerns.
Remove all members from the group and move group to non-operational OU
Remove all members for the group and set enable flag to "false"
Please suggest best way/solution to achieve this.
Thanks
This command will remove an AD Group for you.
Remove-ADGroup
This should help you
Get-ADGroup will get all the groups,
Get-ADGroupMember will get all the member then Move-ADObject will move the group to another OU
$AdGroups = Get-ADGroup -filter * | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name
foreach($ADgroup in $ADgroups){
Get-ADGroupMember "$ADgroup" | ForEach-Object {Remove-ADGroupMember "$ADgroup" $_ -Confirm:$false}
Move-ADObject -Identity $AGroup -TargetPath "OU=disable,DC=test,DC=local"
}
Related
Get-Aduser -identity $User -Properties Memberof -filter {Memberof Name -Notlike "Domain Users" | ForEach-Object { $_.Memberof | Remove-ADGroupMember -Members $User -Confirm:$false}}
Hey Yall,
Im trying to remove folks from their AD Groups except for the Domain Users Group in AD (Our company is holding on to AD accounts, idk why, but they want to remove their general accesses.
When I use the above code to remove them it says: "Get-ADUser : Parameter set cannot be resolved using the specified named parameters."
Im not sure what way is a better way to do this.
I would like to write a script that searches for users and if those users are not members of both Group A and B then they get added to Group B. I have found a lot of conditionals for adding a member to one group if it does not exist in another, but not two groups.
You can just join two condition using -and operator:
get-aduser -filter * -searchbase "dc=domain,dc=local" | where-object {((get-aduser $_.samaccountname -properties memberof).memberof -ne "A") -and ((get-aduser $_.samaccountname -properties memberof).memberof -ne "A")} | ForEach {add-adgroupmember -identity "B" -member $_.samaccountname}
You've identified your use case/goals.
This a common task.
What you are asking, os covered in the PowerShell help files and the examples for the cmdlets:
Get-ADGroupMember (activedirectory) | Microsoft Docs,
Add-ADGroupMember - learn.microsoft.com,
... this is a simple if/then and you can see plenty of examples of this use case online. Search for it on the web and Youtube, 'Powershell AD group management'
Your question is really a duplicate of these stackoverflow Q&A's
Check if a group exists in AD using PowerShell
Check if the user is a member of a list of AD groups
I was hoping someone can point me in the right direction please.
Im trying to do something that should be pretty straight forward i think, but i can;t get it to work or can i find any similar examples. basically, i want to be able to do the following:
Look at an existing Security Group 'Member of' groups and then add those member of groups to another/new group. So for example, group 1 is member of 'A, B, C' groups. Group 2 is memebr of none. I want to copy the membership of Group 1 to Group 2, but NOT users (although if that was a must they could then be removed easily enough.
What i dont need to worry about is any users, or copying groups that users are members of etc.
Thanks
Thanks for that... so if i look at something like:
Add-ADGroupMember -Identity 'TARGETGROUP' -Members (Get-ADGroupMember -Identity 'SOURCEGROUP' -Recursive -Server Server1) -Server Server1
This adds users from Sourcegroup to Targetgroup, but im not worried about users, its the sourcegroups 'Member of' details i want addding to the targetgroup if that makes sense?
I can extract the info from the targetgroup using something like
$Groups = Get-ADGroup -Identity 'SourceGroup' -Properties memberof -Server Server1 | select MemberOf | Format-Table -AutoSize -Wrap
But then cant seem to do much with importing that info into the new group. Hope that makes sense? :)
Thanks for the info: That looks to be trying to add the groups from Source into the Members of section as oppose to the member of section for the groups, if that makes sense? it states 'Add-ADGroupMember : A universal group cannot have a local group as a member' which would suggest its tring to add the groups a s amember of the new group, not into the 'member of' of the new group..
Just wanted to share the following (in crude form) as this doen what i was after:
Get-ADGroup -Identity %SOURCE% -Properties memberof -Server SERVER1 |
Select-Object -ExpandProperty memberof |
Add-ADGroupMember -Members %TARGET% -Server SERVER1
Thanks for your help chaps.
I have the name of a user, and I need to find all the groups that this user is a part of - but only those groups which are within a certain OU.
How do I do this? I know that: Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership cmdlet
finds all the groups that the user is a part of, but I have no idea how to filter this down to the specific OU, as none of the options seem to be helping.
Alternatively, any other way of doing this would be welcome.
Use a Where-Object for the DistinguishedName Path
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership -Identity user |
Where-Object {$_.DistinguishedName -match 'OU=SubOU,OU=MainOU,DC=Domain,DC=local'}
I'm trying to write a script to find disabled users that is member of one or more groups in a specific OU in AD. It will then remove all the groups for all the disabled users. I found this script which removes all groups from users in a csv file, but as i'm looking to run this as a scheduled task I prefer not to process users that already had their groups removed without having to move them to a different OU.
Import-Csv $csvFile | ForEach-Object {
# Disable the account
Disable-ADAccount -Identity $_.samAccountName
# Retrieve the user object and MemberOf property
$user = Get-ADUser -Identity $_.samAccountName -Properties MemberOf
# Remove all group memberships (will leave Domain Users as this is NOT in the MemberOf property returned by Get-ADUser)
foreach ($group in ($user | Select-Object -ExpandProperty MemberOf))
{
Remove-ADGroupMember -Identity $group -Members $user -Confirm:$false
}
}
Any idea on how to filter out the users with more then one group?
I'm using this script to export disabled users that has not logged on for 60 days:
Get-QADUser -searchRoot $OuDomain -searchScope OneLevel -InactiveFor 61 -NotLoggedOnFor 61 -disabled -sizelimit 0
Thx
You seem to have filter by ou part down which is good. You have some thoughts in the beginning of you post but the only actual question is how to filter out the users with more then one group. Not sure if that is a typo or not but I read that as checking the count of groups a user has. A more realistic interpretation of that is filter users that could have at least one of a list of groups. I'm going to cover both.
The Count
I'm sure this is not what you want but just want to cover the base. The following would also work in a Where-Object clause
If((get-aduser $user -Properties MemberOf).MemberOf.Count -gt 0){Process...}
Multiple Groups
I'm sure this was your intention. Locate users that could contain one of serveral groups. This is best handled with regex.
$groupsFilter = "citrix_GateKeeper","barracuda_spam_alerts"
$groupsFilter = "($($groupsFilter -join '|'))"
# $groupsFilter in this example is: (citrix_GateKeeper|barracuda_spam_alerts)
If(((Get-ADUser $user -Properties MemberOf).MemberOf) -match $groupsFilter){Process....}
Create a regex match string based on a string array of multiple groups. If $user is a member of either of those groups then true would be returned.
If nothing here is of any use to you then I would suggest making your question clearer. Hopefully this helps.