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Kahn Kah
Kahn Kah

Reputation: 1453

Moving newly created groups to another OU directly with PowerShell

I'm trying to write a script that creates 2 groups and immediatley moves them to an (already existing) OU.

I tried checking possible answers and it shouldn't be too difficult. However, the code that I managed to get along doesn't seem to work:

New-ADGroup -Name "Soccer players" -GroupScope Global
New-ADGroup -Name "Tennis players" -GroupScope Global
Get-ADGroupMember "Soccer players" -Recursive | Move-ADObject   –TargetPath "OU=SportGroups,DC=funsports,DC=local"
Get-ADGroupMember "Tennis players" -Recursive | Move-ADObject  –TargetPath "OU=SportGroups,DC=funsports,DC=local"

The groups get created but not moved to the OU

I have tried variations of playing with the quotes (at ADGroupMember and target),... But it never seems to work....

Where's my problem?

UPDATE

New-ADGroup -Name "Soccer players" -GroupScope Global  –Path "OU=SportGroups,DC=funsports,DC=local" 
New-ADGroup -Name "Tennis players" -GroupScope Global  –Path "OU=SportGroups,DC=funsports,DC=local"

Creates the groups but not in the SportGroups OU (but in the default 'users' container)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3997

Answers (1)

Ansgar Wiechers
Ansgar Wiechers

Reputation: 200233

You may want to move the groups instead of their members:

$ou = 'OU=SportGroups,DC=funsports,DC=local'
Get-ADGroup 'Soccer players' | Move-ADObject –TargetPath $ou

Or you could place the groups in the correct OU upon creation, so you don't need to move them in the first place:

$ou = 'OU=SportGroups,DC=funsports,DC=local'
New-ADGroup -Name 'Soccer players' -Path $ou -GroupScope Global

Upvotes: 3

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