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powershellcsvactive-directory
christian
christian

Reputation: 69

Powershell with Active Directory creating groups

I have been tasked with creating a bunch of security groups for Active Directory on a 2016 Windows Server. At the moment I have this code 

$CSVLocation = Read-Host -Prompt "Please enter the path of CSV file"
$Groups = Import-CSV $CSVLocation

foreach ($Group in $Groups) {
    $Groupname = Get-ADGroup -Identity $Group.Group
    if ($Groupname -eq $null) {
        New-ADGroup -Name $Group.Group -Path $group.GroupLocation -GroupScope $Group.GroupType
    }
    else {
        echo "Group existes"
    }
}

This is code is trying to create a group if that group doesn't exist and if it does then skip the entry in the CSV. As of this moment, all it does it pump out Get-ADGroup errors about how it can't find the group and then skips the creation of it.

The CSV format is like such:

Group,GroupType,GroupLocation
Group01,Universal,"OU=Test,DC=Example,DC=Local"
Group02,Universal,"OU=Test,DC=Example,DC=Local"
Group03,Universal,"OU=Test,DC=Example,DC=Local"

Error Message:

Get-ADGroup : Cannot find an object with identity: 'AU-CTX-RDP' under: 'DC=Example,DC=local'.
At C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\Scripts\Import Groups.ps1:10 char:14
+ $Groupname = Get-ADGroup -Identity $Group.Group
+              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (AU-CTX-RDP:ADGroup) [Get-ADGroup], ADIdentityNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ActiveDirectoryCmdlet:Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADIdentityNotFoundException,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADGroup

Upvotes: 0

Views: 8159

Answers (2)

Jonathan Preetham
Jonathan Preetham

Reputation: 1

Run this script to create bulk users in Powershell, Task will be completed within 30 seconds

New-ADGroup "-Name -GroupScope -GroupSecurity -GroupName" -Path “OU=OUWhereIStoreMyGroups" -Description

Upvotes: 0

Olaf
Olaf

Reputation: 5232

If you query for a not existing group you get a terminatig error. So the script execution would stop. To avoid this you can use -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue. This way it should work actually

$CSVLocation = Read-Host -Prompt "Please enter the path of CSV file"
$Groups = Import-CSV $CSVLocation

foreach ($Group in $Groups) {
    if (-not (Get-ADGroup  -Filter "Name -eq '$($group.Group)'" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
        New-ADGroup -Name $Group.Group -Path $group.GroupLocation -GroupScope $Group.GroupType  
    }
    else {
        "Group '$($Group.Group)' already exists"
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

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