Add-LocalGroupMember is not recognized as a cmdlet , function , script or file on windows server 2012

Question

Is there a way to add addlocalgroupmember module on windows server 2012? I didnot find any. I need to add AD account on local admin group but i couldn't find a way.

The closest i was able to reach is to install activedirectory-powershell feature using the following command but that too didn't help.

Basically i need to find a way to run a powershell command similar to the below one on win server 2012 -

Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Administrators" -Member "domain\user"

Grief

according to the MSDocs page for that cmdlet, it REQUIRES at least ps5.1 ... and you don't have that installed, apparently. – Sugary

for a workaround, look into the ADSI stuff - it provides a way to address the local accounts. – Sugary

See: Add user to local group – Capp

Answer 1

You don't really need to complicate things much here. In reality you can achieve what you want with a one-line without installing any module since you're not modifying AD you can simply use.

net localgroup Administrators /add domain\username

Heriberto

What if the requirement is to use PowerShell? – Psychopathy

@Psychopathy Powershell can interpret most of cmd commands so you can run that in a powershell script or terminal and the result will be the same. – Heriberto

Answer 2

You need to install the Windows Management Framework (WMF) v5.1 that can be downloaded here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54616

After installing, you will can use the module Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts and the command Add-LocalGroupMember will work just fine.

Larch