Membership in Account Operators, Domain Admins, or Enterprise Admins, or equivalent, is the minimum required to complete this procedure. Review details about using the appropriate accounts and group memberships at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83477.
To add a member to a group using Active Directory Administrative Center |
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To open Active Directory Administrative Center, click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Administrative Center.
Note Another way to open Active Directory Administrative Center is to click Start, click Run, and then type dsac.exe.
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In the management list, right-click the group to which you want to add members, and then click Properties.
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In the Members section, click Add.
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In Enter the object names to select, type the name of the user, group, or computer that you want to add to the group, and then click OK.
Additional considerations
- You can also perform the task in this
procedure by using the Active Directory module for Windows
PowerShell. To open the Active Directory module, click
Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click
Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell. For more
information, see Add a Member to a Group (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=141707).
For more information about Windows PowerShell, see Windows PowerShell (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=102372).
- In addition to users and computers, group
members can include contacts and other groups.