Adding User to a Group [ADSI]

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[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("system.directoryservices")
#get the user
$root = [adsi]"LDAP://OU=mis,OU=employee accounts,DC=city,DC=co,DC=com";
$searcher = new-object system.directoryservices.directorysearcher;
$user = New-Object system.directoryservices.directoryentry;
$searcher.SearchRoot = $root;
$result = $searcher.Findall() | Where-Object { $_.properties.item("cn") -eq
"Chris M" }
$user = $result.GetDirectoryEntry()

#get the group
$searcher_G = new-object system.directoryservices.directorysearcher;
$grp_G = New-Object system.directoryservices.directoryentry;
$root_G = [adsi]"LDAP://OU=tempco security groups,DC=city,DC=co,DC=com";
$searcher_G.SearchRoot = $root_G;
$result_G = $searcher_G.FindAll() | Where-Object { $_.properties.item("cn")
-eq "HR" }
$grp_g = $result_g.GetDirectoryEntry()

#add user to that Group
$grp_g.psbase.Invoke("Add",$user.psbase.path.tostring());
$grp_g.psbase.CommitChanges();

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...interfaces.asp
http://www.sapienpress.com/adsiscripting.pdf