win_domain_group_membership – Manage Windows domain group membership

New in version 2.8.

Synopsis

  • Allows the addition and removal of domain users and domain groups from/to a domain group.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
domain_password
string
The password for username.
domain_server
string
Specifies the Active Directory Domain Services instance to connect to.
Can be in the form of an FQDN or NetBIOS name.
If not specified then the value is based on the domain of the computer running PowerShell.
domain_username
string
The username to use when interacting with AD.
If this is not set then the user Ansible used to log in with will be used instead when using CredSSP or Kerberos with credential delegation.
members
list / required
A list of members to ensure are present/absent from the group.
The given names must be a SamAccountName of a user, group, service account, or computer.
For computers, you must add "$" after the name; for example, to add "Mycomputer" to a group, use "Mycomputer$" as the member.
name
string / required
Name of the domain group to manage membership on.
state
string
    Choices:
  • absent
  • present ←
  • pure
Desired state of the members in the group.
When state is pure, only the members specified will exist, and all other existing members not specified are removed.

Notes

Note

  • This must be run on a host that has the ActiveDirectory powershell module installed.

See Also

See also

win_domain_user – Manages Windows Active Directory user accounts

The official documentation on the win_domain_user module.

win_domain_group – Creates, modifies or removes domain groups

The official documentation on the win_domain_group module.

Examples

- name: Add a domain user/group to a domain group
  win_domain_group_membership:
    name: Foo
    members:
      - Bar
    state: present

- name: Remove a domain user/group from a domain group
  win_domain_group_membership:
    name: Foo
    members:
      - Bar
    state: absent

- name: Ensure only a domain user/group exists in a domain group
  win_domain_group_membership:
    name: Foo
    members:
      - Bar
    state: pure

- name: Add a computer to a domain group
  win_domain_group_membership:
    name: Foo
    members:
      - DESKTOP$
    state: present

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
added
list
success and state is present or pure
A list of members added when state is present or pure; this is empty if no members are added.

Sample:
['UserName', 'GroupName']
members
list
success
A list of all domain group members at completion; this is empty if the group contains no members.

Sample:
['UserName', 'GroupName']
name
string
always
The name of the target domain group.

Sample:
Domain-Admins
removed
list
success and state is absent or pure
A list of members removed when state is absent or pure; this is empty if no members are removed.

Sample:
['UserName', 'GroupName']


Status

Authors

  • Marius Rieder (@jiuka)

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