# Copy AD group members from one to another
**URL:** https://forums.powershell.org/t/copy-ad-group-members-from-one-to-another/13079
**Category:** PowerShell Help
**Created:** [September 3, 2019, 7:06am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/copy-ad-group-members-from-one-to-another/13079 "2019-09-03T07:06:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@kunaguero](https://forums.powershell.org/u/kunaguero)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2019, 7:06am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/copy-ad-group-members-from-one-to-another/13079/1 "2019-09-03T07:06:12Z")
Hello,
I have a command to copy AD group members from one to another
but i want to do that with the help of Excel file for multiple groups.
i want PowerShell to get the content of column A (old group name) and copy all the members to the new group (column B).
internet search didn’t help for me.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Olaf](https://forums.powershell.org/u/Olaf)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2019, 9:09am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/copy-ad-group-members-from-one-to-another/13079/2 "2019-09-03T09:09:12Z")
We’re used to be better when we get something to tweak. What do you have so far? Please show your code. [Powershell.org](http://Powershell.org) is not a free code writing service – you know that, right? We expect you to do your own research before and at least try to solve your problem by yourself.
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### Author:  [@jasonrobertson](https://forums.powershell.org/u/jasonrobertson)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2019, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/copy-ad-group-members-from-one-to-another/13079/3 "2019-09-03T10:01:06Z")
Atx750K,
Olaf is right without having any code to work with we can’t really assist much further. Below is an example of how I would go about it. Note the **Headers** in the csv file would be **OldGroup** and **NewGroup**.
```
ForEach ($Group in (Import-Csv C:\Temp\GroupAssignment.csv)){
$OldGroupMembership = Get-ADGroupMembership -Identity $Group.OldGroup
If ($null -ne $OldGroupmembership){
Add-ADGroupMembership -Identity $Group.NewGroup -Members $OldeGroupMembership
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@kunaguero](https://forums.powershell.org/u/kunaguero)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2019, 11:20pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/copy-ad-group-members-from-one-to-another/13079/4 "2019-09-03T23:20:21Z")
Hello,
Thanks for your replay
i have this so far:
``
```
Add-ADGroupMember-Identity'New Group'-Members(Get-ADGroupMember-Identity'Old Group'-Recursive)
```
``
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### Author:  [@kunaguero](https://forums.powershell.org/u/kunaguero)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2019, 11:26pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/copy-ad-group-members-from-one-to-another/13079/5 "2019-09-03T23:26:11Z")
[quote quote=174316][/quote]
Should i set a value for **$Group**?
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### Author:  [@jasonrobertson](https://forums.powershell.org/u/jasonrobertson)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2019, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/copy-ad-group-members-from-one-to-another/13079/6 "2019-09-04T10:22:47Z")
Atx750K,
When you use the foreach loop you have to assign a variable to the item that is being iterated through, it can be called anything you want. Here is another example.
```
$Pizza = Get-Content C:\temp\Pepperoni.txt
Foreach ($Slice in $Pizza){
Write-Output "I ate $slice"}
```
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### Author:  [@john-curtiss](https://forums.powershell.org/u/john-curtiss)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2019, 11:06am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/copy-ad-group-members-from-one-to-another/13079/7 "2019-09-04T11:06:55Z")
@jason.robertson as much as I prefer the spelling “olde”, you do only use it one out of three times in your script. 🙂
Add-ADGroupMembership -Identity $Group.NewGroup -Members $Old_ **e** _GroupMembership
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### Author:  [@jasonrobertson](https://forums.powershell.org/u/jasonrobertson)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2019, 11:16am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/copy-ad-group-members-from-one-to-another/13079/8 "2019-09-04T11:16:06Z")
John,
Hahaha yeah, thankfully tab complete is our friend. 🙂 We can chalk it up to using mid 19th century English instead of modern English. 😉
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### Author:  [@dotnVo](https://forums.powershell.org/u/dotnVo)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2024, 8:32pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/copy-ad-group-members-from-one-to-another/13079/9 "2024-05-16T20:32:04Z")