Active Directory Domain Services 2008 : Manage Active Directory Domain Services Data - Add User to Group

Add User to Group by Using the Windows Interface

To add a user to a group by using the Windows interface, perform the following steps:

Add User to Group by Using the Command Line

To add a user to a group by using the command line, perform the following steps:

1.	Log on to a domain controller.
2.	Click Start, and click Command Prompt.
3.	In the Command Prompt window, type the following command and press Enter: Dsmod group "CN=Group1,OU=New York,DC=WS08DOMAIN01,DC=local" -addmbr "CN=Jonathan Smith,CN=Users,DC=WS08DOMAIN01,DC=local" (where "CN=Group1,OU=New York,DC=WS08DOMAIN01,DC=local" is the distinguished name of the group and "CN=Jonathan Smith,CN=Users,DC=WS08DOMAIN01,DC=local" is the distinguished name of the user that you want to add to the group).
4.	Verify that the results of the dsmod group command entered above returns dsmod succeeded, as shown in Figure 2. Figure 2. Adding a user to a group using the command line.