Delete Multiple Groups

[Guest]

Hi,

I've got a server with hundreds of local groups on it. They were created
from an old Site Server installation and, of course, no longer needed
anymore. Is there an easy way to delete all of these at once...since I can
only select one at a time in the Computer Management > Groups console?
Thanks

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "basin" <[email protected]>

| Hi,
|
| I've got a server with hundreds of local groups on it. They were created
| from an old Site Server installation and, of course, no longer needed
| anymore. Is there an easy way to delete all of these at once...since I can
| only select one at a time in the Computer Management > Groups console?
| Thanks

Create a script that uses 'net localgroup "GROUPNAME" /delete' to remove the unwanted
groups.

Running "net localgroup" should display a list of groups and you can redirect it to a disk
file and edit it to be used by the script.such that each group name appears without and
asterisk and each name is on its own line.

Example:
net localgroup >groups.txt

Then execute; notepad groups.txt to make the file usable for the script.

Kixtart Script sample...
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$procedurefile="groups.txt"
IF Open(1,$procedurefile,2)=0
$GroupName=ReadLine(1)
WHILE @ERROR=0
shell 'net localgroup "$GroupName" /delete'
$GroupName=ReadLine(1)
LOOP
Close(1)
ENDIF

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "David H. Lipman" <[email protected]>

Did I waste my time here ?