Add user to Farm Admin Group
# .DESCRIPTION
# Add users to the Farm Administrators group
#
# .INPUT
# - Central Admin port number
# - user or group
# - http Central admin URL
#
# .NOTES
# File Name : Add_user_farm_admin_group.ps1
# Author : Ronald Bruinsma @ iDocs.info
#
# #>
# ##
# # Start of script
# ##
#Include the SharePoint cmdlets:
#Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
Write-Host 'Add user(s) to Farm Administrator group:'
Write-Host '----------------------------------------'
# input:
$caPortNumber = Read-Host -Prompt 'Port number of Central Admin site'
$URL = Read-Host -Prompt 'URL of the Central Admin site'
do{
$userToAdd = Read-Host -Prompt 'User to add to Farm Admin group <DOMAIN><USERNAME>'
#create a website object:
$site = new-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite("https://"+$URL+":"+$caPortNumber)
$web = $site.RootWeb
#get the Farm administrators group:
$farmadministrators = $web.SiteGroups["Farm Administrators"]
#add the user to the Farm administartor group:
$farmadministrators.AddUser($userToAdd,"","New Sharepoint Farm Admins","")
#round up
Write-Host '----------------------------------------'
Write-Host "Succesfully added " $userToAdd " to the Farm administrator group on the CA site: " $URL":"$caPortNumber
Write-Host '----------------------------------------'
Write-Host 'Current users in Farm Administrator group:'
foreach ($user in $farmadministrators.users)
{
Write-Host $user
}
Write-Host '----------------------------------------'
# Add another user to the Farm Administrator group? if yes, start all over again.
$addAnotherUser = Read-Host 'Add another user to the Farm Administrator group? (Y/N)'
}
# if no, than quit the script
until ($addAnotherUser -eq 'N')
#dipose everything:
$web.Dispose()
$site.Dispose()