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I have to create multiple Universal group in the active directory. Is there any scripts to do so to give the list of groups as a input file and the script has to read the names from the input file ? Or how to achieve the same through CSVDE? Thanks

Joseph Daly

Are you just creating the groups or do you want to populate them also?

jmohan0302

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I have to create the groups in Active Directory and also the description and the Email Address for the group as it is a Universal Distribution group. I need to create a multiple Universal Distribution group so I am looking for a script or a command to do this. Thanks

Joseph Daly

Using the quest powershell cmdlets to create groups would be similar to below.

Import-CSV {filename}.csv | ForEach{ new-qadgroup -name $_.name -parentcontainer "OU=Destination,DC=domain,DC=com" -groupscope universal}

The following will take a CSV file with a column named Name and create the groups using that. The top row of the CSV must be named name for this to work correctly.

Joseph Daly

If they are going to be distribution groups then you will need to use the code below.

Import-CSV {filename}.csv | ForEach{ new-qadgroup -name $_.name -parentcontainer "OU=Destination,DC=domain,DC=com" -groupscope universal -grouptype distribution}

jmohan0302

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Thanks. What should be the content of the filename.csv. Also I need to have the description and email address of each group

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jmohan0302

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Could you provide me the sampe CSV file