Add user collections to the group using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell

In this blog you will see how to add user collections to the group using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell

Steps Involved:

1. Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell by going to Start | All Programs | SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products | SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (Run as Administrator).
2. Run the following script.

Powershell Script:

## Add user collections to the group using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell $uri="http://serverName:10736/sites/ECT2/_vti_bin/UserGroup.asmx?wsdl" ## $groupName is a string that contains group name in which the user collections has to be added [String]$groupName ="Group1"; ## $userInfoXmlPath is a string which contains the Users.xml path ## Users.xml contains the information about the users that has to be added to the specified group mentioned in $groupName $userInfoXmlPath="D:\Users.xml" $xmlDocument = New-Object -TypeName System.Xml.XmlDocument $xmlDocument.Load($userInfoXmlPath) ## $userInfoXml is a System.Xml.XmlNode object that specifies one or more user information that has to be added to the specified group $userInfoXml = $xmlDocument.DocumentElement ## Web Service Reference - http://Site/_vti_bin/UserGroup.asmx $usergroupWebServiceReference = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $uri -UseDefaultCredential $usergroupWebServiceReference.AddUserCollectionToGroup($groupName,$userInfoXml)

Users.xml:




Result:

Navigate to Site Actions => Site Settings => Users and Permissions => People and Groups => Group1. You could be able to see the user collections added to the group "Group1".

Summary:

Thus in this blog you have seen how to add the user collections to the specified group using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell.