Create the default groups via PowerShell

Create the default groups via PowerShell

  PowerShell, SharePoint René Hézser

If your site is missing the three default groups “Visitors”, “Members” and “Owners”, you can create them easily with PowerShell or the Object Model.

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

$web = Get-SPWeb https://your.site.url
if ($web.AssociatedVisitorGroup -eq $null) {
    Write-Host 'The Visitor Group does not exist. It will be created...' -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 'The Visitor Group already exists.' -ForegroundColor Green
}

 

ByRené Hézser

3 Comments

samol

Reply

thanks very much,.
May i know how to provide a custom permission level to a group based on the permissions levels [ read, view only,contribute, contributenodelete] using powershell.
if you can tell some code snipttes, then its will be great help!
thnx
samolpp

 

Rishi Sharma

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
}

 

tristian o’brien

Reply

thaniks for this. this is for on-premise SharePoint. wont work for SharePoint online for anyone else that needs to know.

 

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