Unified Group membership

Question

Hi All

i have created unified group using the below syntax.

New-UnifiedGroup -DisplayName "UG1" -Alias "UG1" -PrimarySmtpAddress "UG1@contoso.com" -Members "user1@contoso.com","user2@contoso.com" -ManagedBy "user1@contoso.com","user2@contoso.com"

I want to add user3@contoso.com & user4@contoso.com as the owner of the unfied group and remove user1 & user2.

I want to add user5@consoto.com & user6@contoso.com as the members and remove user1 & user2. i have two csv files one as owner and one as member, how can i import the csv file and make the changes using powershell please guide me.

Answer 1

Hi @Glenn Maxwell,

Based on your description, you could use this command to add/remove user via CSV:

For add:

Import-CSV "C:\members.csv" | ForEach-Object {Add-UnifiedGroupLinks –Identity "XXX" –LinkType Members  –Links $_.member}

For remove:

Import-CSV "C:\members.csv" | ForEach-Object {Remove-UnifiedGroupLinks –Identity "XXX" –Links $.member –LinkType Members -Confirm:$false Write-Host "The user" $.member "removed"}

Here is the sample CSV:

However, I suggest you can do it step by step since you just need to tack action on a small number of users.

Note: You can’t add an Owner straight away to group, first you will have to make it a member of the group and then you can change the role to owner.

So we add [user3@contoso.com] & [user4@contoso.com] and [user5@contoso.com] & [user6@contoso.com] as the member first, run this command:

Add-UnifiedGroupLinks -Identity "XXX" -LinkType Members -Links [user3@consoto.com], [user4@consoto.com], [user5@consoto.com], [user6@consoto.com]

Then change [user3@contoso.com] & [user4@contoso.com] the role to Owner, run this command:

Add-UnifiedGroupLinks -Identity "XXX" -LinkType Owners -Links [user5@consoto.com], [user6@consoto.com]

To remove user1 & user2, run this command:

Remove-UnifiedGroupLinks -Identity "XXX" -LinkType Members -Links [user1@consoto.com], [user2@consoto.com]

For more information you can refer to the documents below:

Add-UnifiedGroupLinks (ExchangePowerShell) | Microsoft Learn

Remove-UnifiedGroupLinks (ExchangePowerShell) | Microsoft Learn