Remove-ADGroupMember
Synopsis
Description
The Identity parameter specifies the Active Directory group that contains the members to remove. You can identify a group by its distinguished name (DN), GUID, security identifier (SID), or Security Accounts Manager (SAM) account name. You can also specify a group object variable, such as $, or pass a group object through the pipeline to the Identity parameter. For example, you can use the Get-ADGroup cmdlet to retrieve a group object and then pass the object through the pipeline to the Remove-ADGroupMember cmdlet.
The Members parameter specifies the users, computers and groups to remove from the group specified by the Identity parameter. You can identify a user, computer or group by its distinguished name (DN), GUID, security identifier (SID), or Security Accounts Manager (SAM) account name. You can also specify user, computer, and group object variables, such as $. If you are specifying more than one new member, use a comma-separated list. You cannot pass user, computer, or group objects through the pipeline to this cmdlet. To remove user, computer, or group objects from a group by using the pipeline, use the Remove-ADPrincipalGroupMembership cmdlet.
-The cmdlet is run from an Active Directory provider drive.
-A default naming context or partition is defined for the AD LDS environment. To specify a default naming context for an AD LDS environment, set the msDS-defaultNamingContext property of the Active Directory directory service agent (DSA) object (nTDSDSA) for the AD LDS instance.
Parameters
-AuthType
Specifies the authentication method to use. Possible values for this parameter include:
Required? false
Position? named
Default value Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.AuthType.Negotiate
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false
-Credential <PSCredential>
Specifies the user account credentials to use to perform this task. The default credentials are the credentials of the currently logged on user unless the cmdlet is run from an Active Directory PowerShell provider drive. If the cmdlet is run from such a provider drive, the account associated with the drive is the default.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false
-Identity <ADGroup>
Specifies an Active Directory group object by providing one of the following values. The identifier in parentheses is the LDAP display name for the attribute.
Required? true
Position? 1
Default value
Accept pipeline input? True (ByValue)
Accept wildcard characters? false
-Members <ADPrincipal[]>
Specifies a set of users, groups, and computers to remove from a group. You can identify users, groups, and computers by specifying one of the following values. Note: The identifier in parentheses is the LDAP display name.
Required? true
Position? 2
Default value
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false
-Partition <String>
Specifies the distinguished name of an Active Directory partition. The distinguished name must be one of the naming contexts on the current directory server. The cmdlet searches this partition to find the object defined by the Identity parameter.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
Returns the new or modified object. By default (i.e. if -PassThru is not specified), this cmdlet does not generate any output.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false
-Server <String>
Specifies the Active Directory Domain Services instance to connect to, by providing one of the following values for a corresponding domain name or directory server. The service may be any of the following: Active Directory Lightweight Domain Services, Active Directory Domain Services or Active Directory Snapshot instance.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false
-Confirm <SwitchParameter>
Prompts you for confirmation before running the cmdlet.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value false
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false
-WhatIf <SwitchParameter>
Shows what would happen if the cmdlet runs. The cmdlet is not run.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value false
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? falseSyntax
Remove-ADGroupMember [-WhatIf] [-Confirm] [-AuthType <ADAuthType>] [-Credential <PSCredential>] [-Identity] <ADGroup> [-Members] <ADPrincipal[]> [-Partition <String>] [-PassThru] [-Server <String>] [<CommonParameters>]
This cmdlet does not work with an Active Directory snapshot.
C:\PS>remove-adgroupmember -Identity “DocReaders” -Member “NileshP”
Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Performing operation "Set" on Target "CN=DocReaders,CN=Users,DC=TOSSolution,DC=com".
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"):
C:\PS>remove-adgroupmember “DocReaders” “admin”,”Raghu Ram”
Remove the users with samAccountNames ‘admin’ and ‘Raghu Ram’ from the group ‘DocReaders’.
C:\PS>get-adgroup -server localhost:60000 “CN=AccessControl,DC=AppNC” | remove-adgroupmember -member “CN=TejaSurya,DC=AppNC”
Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Performing operation "Set" on Target "CN=AccessControl,DC=AppNC".
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"):Get-Command Remove-ADGroupMember
. Add-ADGroupMember
. Add-ADPrincipalGroupMembership
. Get-ADGroup
. Get-ADGroupMember
. Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership
. Remove-ADPrincipalGroupMembership
