Add Domain User or Domain Group to Local Administrators Group
This script will add a domain user or group to the local administrators group of a remote computer. Make sure to change YourDomain to your WinNT domain name. Also change Administrators if you need to add the user or group to a different local group.
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'add_admin.vbs
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'Jason Hofferle
'6/14/2005
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Option Explicit
Dim objArgs, objLocalAdminGroup
Dim strComputer, strUser
'On Error Resume Next
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
strComputer = objArgs(0)
strUser = objArgs(1)
Set objLocalAdminGroup = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/Administrators")
WScript.Echo strComputer & " " & strUser
objLocalAdminGroup.Add("WinNT://YourDomain/" & strUser)
Set objArgs = Nothing
Set objLocalAdminGroup = Nothing
To use at a command prompt:
add_admin.vbs [computer] [user]
To add the domain user user01 to the local administrators group on workstation01:
C:\>cscript.exe add_admin.vbs workstation01 user01
To add the domain group DomainIT to the local administrators group on workstation01:
C:\>cscript.exe add_admin.vbs workstation01 DomainIT