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New-PnPSiteGroup

SYNOPSIS

Required Permissions

  • SharePoint: Access to the SharePoint Tenant Administration site

Creates a new group in a SharePoint Online site collection.

SYNTAX

New-PnPSiteGroup
   -Name <String>
   -PermissionLevels <String[]>
   [-Site <SitePipeBind>]

DESCRIPTION

A SharePoint group is a set of individual users. SharePoint groups enable you to manage sets of users instead of individual users.

EXAMPLES

EXAMPLE 1

New-PnPSiteGroup -Site "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/siteA" -Name "Project Leads" -PermissionLevels "Full Control"

This example creates a group named Project Leads with the Full Control permission level on the site collection https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/siteA.

EXAMPLE 2

New-PnPSiteGroup -Site "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing" -Name "NewGroupName" -PermissionLevels "Design"

This example creates a group named NewGroupName with the Design permission level on the site collection https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing.

PARAMETERS

-Name

Specifies the name of the group to add

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases: Group
Required: True
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-PermissionLevels

Specifies the permission levels to grant to the newly created group. It can be any permission level that exists on the site collection on which the group is being created.

Note

Permission Levels, are defined on the top-level site of the site collection, please see How to create and edit permission levels for more information.

Type: String[]
Parameter Sets: (All)

Required: True
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-Site

Specifies the site collection to add the group to. If not specified the currently connected site collection will be used.

Type: SitePipeBind
Parameter Sets: (All)

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

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