Active Directory with PowerShell

Removing members from an AD group

As part of reconciliation activities, a system administrator may need to remove members from security groups or users who have left the organization or moved to a different department and no longer require access to a particular network resource/shared drive. These changes generally involve removing user accounts from a given security group.

The Active Directory PowerShell module provides a cmdlet called Remove-ADGroupMember. Similar to the Get-ADGroupMember cmdlet, the Remove-ADGroupMember cmdlet also has two mandatory parameters: Identity and Members. The Identity parameter takes the name of the group from which you want to remove the members and the Members parameter takes the list of users, computers, or group ...