Create the default groups via PowerShell

Rishi Sharma

Jun 27, 2017 Reply

Thank you so much for posting the above scripts to create a Group but here i want to mention something which is:

The above command is only to create Groups if the site already been created. But if we want all the groups to be created at once at the time of creating a Site Collection, we need to type below script along with it.

PFB the complete script to create a site collections along with its Groups:

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

New-SPSite -Url http://srtekbox55466:1111 -OwnerAlias $currentUser -Name NextGensmartContract -Language 1033 -Template

sts#0

$web = Get-SPWeb http://srtekbox55466:1111
if ($web.AssociatedVisitorGroup -eq $null) {
Write-Host ‘loading…’ -ForegroundColor DarkYellow
$currentLogin = $web.CurrentUser.LoginName

if ($web.CurrentUser.IsSiteAdmin -eq $false){
Write-Host (‘The user ‘+$currentLogin+’ needs to be a SiteCollection administrator, to create the default

groups.’) -ForegroundColor Red
return
}

$web.CreateDefaultAssociatedGroups($currentLogin, $currentLogin, [System.String].Empty)
Write-Host ‘The default Groups have been created.’ -ForegroundColor Green
} else {
Write-Host ‘Enter all the values.’ -ForegroundColor Green
}