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Add Non-Existent User to SharePoint Group

Hello,

I have a SharePoint 2010 farm. I want the ability to add users to groups. We use claims based authentication.

I need to be able to add users who do not yet exist and are not yet registered to groups I have already created. Because it is claims based, and relies on their email address, I know exactly what their username will be when they register. I want to take a whole email list I have and add all the users to the group, such that when they register and first visit the site they immediately have the permissions I have already granted.

Is there any way to do this? I don't want to automatically register them. They must register themselves. I just want to add them before they register.

I am amenable to PowerShell, GUI, etc. Whatever would make this work.

Thank you,
Joseph Irvine
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If you know all of the user information, why not just go ahead and create the user in AD, disable the user, and then add the user to SharePoint. (I am pretty sure you can add a disable user to SharePoint. If not, add the user then disable the user in AD after the user is added to SharePoint.)

When it come time to make the user active, just enable the account.