Adding users to the local admin - script question

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Hi again guys,

I have this script here that works to create a local user account w/ password. What I’m trying to do is get it to also add that same user to the local admins group. I know the user is created because I can see it within the GUI managment console, but it won’t add it to the admin groups. It outputs this error:

Exception calling "add" with "1" argument(s): "A member could not be added to or removed from the local group because
the member does not exist.
"
At C:\VM_scripts\CreateLocalUser02.ps1:103 char:1
+ $group.add("WinNT://"+ $user +",user")
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CatchFromBaseAdapterMethodInvokeTI

Here’s what I have inside the ps1 script:

param($computer="localhost", $user, $password)

$objOu = [ADSI]"WinNT://$computer"

$objUser = $objOU.Create("User", $user)

$objUser.setpassword($password)

$objUser.UserFlags = 64 + 65536 # ADS_UF_PASSWD_CANT_CHANGE + ADS_UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD

$comp = [ADSI]("WinNT://$computer")
$group = $comp.psbase.children.find("administrators")
$group.add("WinNT://"+ $user +",user")

$objUser.SetInfo()

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you!

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The user is not created until $obj.SetInfo() is called so that needs to happen before you try to add it to the group.

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3

Ahhh that was the problem. Thank you, Mike!