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Albert Widjaja

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Thank you! worked like a charm. Just the $targetOU variable wasnt used. I've added it to the new-adgroup cmdlet. You are awesome. 
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Sorry; for the sake of completeness (and for anybody else finding this), here's the version with the missing argument (-Path): 

<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-20-43031643-1">$computerList = Import-Csv -Path 'C:\Temp\ComputerList.csv'
$groupNames = @( # The {0} will be replaced with the computer name
	'DLG-LocalAdministrator-{0}'
	'DLG-RemoteDesktopUsers-{0}'
)
$targetOU = 'OU=MyDLGroups,OU=Groups,DC=domain,DC=com'

$computerList | Select-Object -ExpandProperty 'Name' | ForEach-Object {
	$computerName = $_
	ForEach ($groupName in $groupNames) {
		$name = $groupName -f $computerName
		$null = New-ADGroup -Name $name -SamAccountName $name -GroupCategory Security -GroupScope DomainLocal-Path $targetOU -Verbose -WhatIf
	}
}
</code></pre>
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Hi All, 
 
I have around 100 servers in my test environment. I would like to create 2 Active Directory domain local security groups for each server. 1 for local admin rights and 1 for remote desktop users. Groups can look like: 
 
DLG-LocalAdministrator-SERVERNAME 
DLG-RemoteDesktopUsers-SERVERNAME 
 
I have an active directory export of these servers in a CSV file. How can i automate to create those groups with each servername in them? 
 
Thanks in advance.
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Hi All, 

I have around 100 servers in my test environment. I would like to create 2 Active Directory domain local security groups for each server. 1 for local admin rights and 1 for remote desktop users. Groups can look like:

DLG-LocalAdministrator-SERVERNAME
DLG-RemoteDesktopUsers-SERVERNAME

I have an active directory export of these servers in a CSV file. How can i automate to create those groups with each servername in them? 

Thanks in advance.

Create bulk AD groups from CSV.

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