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sofo-83
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Mar 30, 2022

add just one user to many groups

Hi please help me to make a script in PowerShell to add just one user to many groups 
azure active directory
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sofo-83
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Apr 05, 2022

Thanks a lot
is the group name must be as a string (name) or should I bring the object ID?  Harm_Veenstra 

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    Harm_Veenstra
    MVP
    Apr 05, 2022

    The name of the group as you see it in Active Directory, Display Name I guess. Let me know if it worked out for you, you can mark my answer as solution to mark it as solved if it does

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      sofo-83
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 05, 2022
      ForEach ($Group in $Groups) {Add-AzureADGroupMember -ObjectId "username" -MemberOf $Group}
      I have changed the parameter Add-ADPrincipalGroupMembership to Add-AzureADGroupMember
      but still get error for the parametr -MemberOf .

      Add-AzureADGroupMember : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'MemberOf'.
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        Harm_Veenstra
        MVP
        Apr 05, 2022

        sofo-83 This works for me:

         

         

        $usertobeaddedid=Get-AzureADUser -ObjectId 'usermailaddress'
$groups=@("sg-retail", "sg-hr", "sg-legal")
foreach ($group in $groups) {
$groupid=Get-AzureADGroup | Where-Object DisplayName -Match $group
Add-AzureADGroupMember -ObjectId $groupid.objectid -RefObjectId $usertobeaddedid.ObjectId
}

         

        If the user is already a member, you will receive this error:

        Add-AzureADGroupMember : Error occurred while executing AddGroupMember
        Code: Request_BadRequest
        Message: One or more added object references already exist for the following modified properties: 'members'.
        RequestId: 6c01973a-aad9-4396-b89a-0b8fa62d09b4
        DateTimeStamp: Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:27:54 GMT
        HttpStatusCode: BadRequest
        HttpStatusDescription: Bad Request
        HttpResponseStatus: Completed
        At line:3 char:1
        + Add-AzureADGroupMember -ObjectId $groupid.objectid -RefObjectId $user ...
        + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Add-AzureADGroupMember], ApiException
        + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Open.AzureAD16.Client.ApiException,Microsoft.Open.AzureAD16.PowerShell.AddGroupMember

         

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      sofo-83
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 05, 2022
      the script doesn't fit with Azure AD 😞

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