How to Rename a SharePoint Group using PowerShell?
Requirement: On a marketing site, the site owner wanted to rename the “Marketing Members” group name to “Marketing Managers” as it makes more sense to him.
How to rename a SharePoint Group?
To rename a SharePoint 2013 user group, navigate to:
- Site settings >> Site permissions >> Pick your target group
- Click on “Group Settings” from Settings Menu
- Supply a new name for your SharePoint permission group.
- Click on OK to save your changes.
Pretty straightforward, isn’t it?
Rename SharePoint group using PowerShell:
Renaming SharePoint groups can be achieved with PowerShell too. Here is my PowerShell script to rename a group in SharePoint 2013:
#sharepoint powershell change group name
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
#Variables
$SiteURL = "https://intranet.crescent.com/sites/marketing/"
$GroupName = "Marketing Members"
$GroupNewName ="Marketing Managers"
#Get site and Group objects
$Site = Get-SPSite $SiteURL
$Group = $Site.RootWeb.SiteGroups[$GroupName]
if($Group -ne $null)
{
#sharepoint rename permission group
$Group.name = $GroupNewName
#Update the group
$Group.Update()
Write-host "Group Name has been updated!"
}
#dispose site object
$site.Dispose()
This PowerShell changes SharePoint group name!