Add members to community from PowerShell

This only applies to version higher or equal to 3.6.0

Appspace Intranet (powered by Beezy) does not limit the number of members you can add to a community.

As an Appspace Intranet administrator, you can add members to a community with the following steps.

Depending on your installation model:

WSP Appspace Intranet Release Package

1. From a WFE
2. Run Powershell as administrator
3. Browse to the “Deployment files” folder

Add-in Appspace Intranet Release Package

1. Run Powershell as administrator
2. Browse to the “Deployment files” folder

Once you are in the right folder, steps are the same:

Execute the following script:

.beezy-AddMembersToGroup.ps1 -SiteCollectionUrl <beezy-sitecollection_url> -GroupId <beezy_group_id> [-ADGroup <groupname>] [-CsvFile <filepath>]

Mandatory parameters:

• <beezy-sitecollection_url>: Appspace Intranet site collection URL.
• <beezy_group_id>: Appspace Intranet group (community) ID number. You can get the number from the community URL.

Optional parameters (source):

• -ADGroup <groupname>: specify the AD group name if you want to add users from an AD group as community members.
• -CsvFile <filepath>: specify the path of a .csv file if you want to add users from a CSV file as community members.

If no source is specified, the source will be the Appspace Intranet database itself.

Format .csv file:

On-premises (header ‘username’ is required)
——————
username
domainuser1
domainuser2
domainuser3
——————

Cloud (header ‘username’ is required)
——————
username
user1@domain.com
user2@domain.com
user3@domain.com
——————

Examples:

Add members from Appspace Intranet database:

.beezy-AddMembersToGroup.ps1 -SiteCollectionUrl http://portal.b13qa.local -GroupId 4641

.beezy-AddMembersToGroup.ps1 -SiteCollectionUrl https://beezyqa.sharepoint.com/sites/beezy -GroupId 952

Add members from CSV file:

.beezy-AddMembersToGroup.ps1 -SiteCollectionUrl http://portal.b13qa.local -GroupId 4641 -CsvFile c:tempusers.csv

Add members from AD group:

.beezy-AddMembersToGroup.ps1 -SiteCollectionUrl http://portal.b13qa.local -GroupId 4641 -ADgroup b13qaallpeople

.beezy-AddMembersToGroup.ps1 -SiteCollectionUrl https://beezyqa.sharepoint.com/sites/beezy -GroupId 952 -ADgroup allusers