Domain Groups and PowerShell

Jason Hofferle has a nice post on Adding Domain Groups to Local Administrators Group with PowerShell.  Basically Jason ran into a problem adding domain groups with long names using NET.EXE, so he had to come up with a PowerShell solution.

That’s right, the NET.EXE /ADD command does not support names longer than 20 characters. If net localgroup /add is being used in a computer startup script, the groups with long names just won’t be added.

So the traditional batch file startup script was replaced with a PowerShell startup script,

(read more and get script)

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