How to Create Default Groups in SharePoint Site?
Problem:
The default SharePoint groups are created automatically when you create a site collection through SharePoint Web UI. But, when you create SharePoint sites programmatically or with PowerShell (E.g. New-SPSite or New-SPWeb), The default site groups (such as: Visitors, Members, Owners) are not created automatically!
Default groups creation from UI: You can get the default group page from SharePoint UI by navigating to: http://your-sharepoint-site.com/_layouts/permsetup.aspx . Enter group details and hit "Save".
How to create default SharePoint groups:
You have to call the method: SPWeb.CreateDefaultAssociatedGroups explicitly. to create default user groups in SharePoint.
Create Default User Groups programmatically using PowerShell:
The default SharePoint groups are created automatically when you create a site collection through SharePoint Web UI. But, when you create SharePoint sites programmatically or with PowerShell (E.g. New-SPSite or New-SPWeb), The default site groups (such as: Visitors, Members, Owners) are not created automatically!
Default groups creation from UI: You can get the default group page from SharePoint UI by navigating to: http://your-sharepoint-site.com/_layouts/permsetup.aspx . Enter group details and hit "Save".
You have to call the method: SPWeb.CreateDefaultAssociatedGroups explicitly. to create default user groups in SharePoint.
Create Default User Groups programmatically using PowerShell:
Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #Variables for Site collection $SiteURL ="https://intranet.crescent.com" $Site = Get-SPSite $SiteURL #get the Root Web object $RootWeb = $Site.RootWeb $GroupOwner = "i:0#.w|global\salaudeen" $RootWeb.CreateDefaultAssociatedGroups($GroupOwner, "", $RootWeb.title)
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