Manage Azure AD group and role membership
Updated: July 30, 2015
Applies To: Azure, Azure Active Directory, Office 365, Windows Intune
Manage group and role membership
Use the following cmdlets to perform a variety of tasks related to group and role membership, including adding a user to a role or group, creating groups, and removing groups.
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The Add-MsolGroupMember cmdlet is used to add members to a security group. The new members can be either users or other security groups. |
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The Add-MsolRoleMember cmdlet is used to add a member to a role. Currently, only users can be added to a role (adding a security group is not supported). |
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The Get-MsolGroup cmdlet is used to retrieve groups from Azure AD. This cmdlet can be used to return a single group (if ObjectId is passed in), or to search within all groups. |
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The Get-MsolGroupMember cmdlet is used to retrieve members of the specified group. The members can be either users or groups. |
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The Get-MsolRole cmdlet can be used to retrieve a list of administrator roles. |
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The Get-MsolRoleMember cmdlet is used to retrieve all members of the specified role. |
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The Get-MsolUserRole cmdlet is used to retrieve all of the administrator roles that the specified user belongs to. This cmdlet will also return roles that the user is a member of through security group membership. |
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The New-MsolGroup cmdlet is used to add a new security group to Azure AD. |
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The Redo-MsolProvisionGroup cmdlet can be used to retry the provisioning of a group object in Azure Active Directory when a previous attempt to create the group object resulted in a validation error. |
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The Remove-MsolGroup cmdlet is used to delete a group from Azure AD. |
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The Remove-MsolGroupMember cmdlet is used to remove a member from a security group. This member can be either a user or a group. |
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The Remove-MsolRoleMember cmdlet is used to remove a user from an administrator role. |
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The Set-MsolGroup cmdlet is used to update the properties of a security group. |