Net group

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Adds, displays, or modifies global groups in domains.

net group [GroupName [/comment:"Text"]] [/domain]

net group [GroupName{/add [/comment:"Text"] | /delete} [/domain]]

net group [GroupName UserName[ ...] {/add | /delete} [/domain]]

• GroupName
  Specifies the name of the group to add, expand, or delete. Specify a group name to view a list of users in a group only.

• /comment: "Text"
  Adds a comment for a new or existing group. The comment can have as many as 48 characters. Enclose the text in quotation marks.

• /domain
  Performs the operation on the domain controller in the current domain. Otherwise, the operation is performed on the local computer.

• /add
  Adds a group, or adds a user name to a group. You must establish an account for users that you add to a group with this command.

• /delete
  Removes a group, or removes a user name from a group.

• UserName[...]
  Lists one or more user names to add to or remove from a group. Separate multiple user name entries with a space.

• net help Command
  Displays help for the specified net command.

• Used without parameters, net group displays the name of a server and the names of groups on the server.

• You can also type net groups.

• Use net group to group users who use the network in the same or similar ways. When you assign rights to a group, each member of the group automatically has those rights. In the output, net group precedes groups that include both users and groups with an asterisk (*).

  The net group output of groups on the server is similar to the following:

  Group Accounts for \\PRODUCTION
  ----------------------------------------------
  *Domain Admins           *Domain Users
  

To display a list of all of the groups on the local server, type:

net group

To add a group called Exec to the local user accounts database, type:

net group exec /add

To add a group called Exec to the domain database, type:

net group exec /add /domain

To add the existing user accounts stevev, ralphr, and jennyt to the Exec group on the local computer, type:

net group exec stevev ralphr jennyt /add

To add the existing user accounts stevev, ralphr, and jennyt to the Exec group in the domain database, type:

net group exec stevev ralphr jennyt /add /domain

To display users in the Exec group, type:

net group exec

To add a comment to the Exec group record, type:

net group exec /comment:"The executive staff"

Net user
Command-line reference A-Z
Command shell overview

Net localgroup
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