Assigning a group to a sharepoint role via stsadm (moss2007)
Hi On our Sharepoint 2007 server, in a particular site collection, I have a bunch of users added to a group called 'staff'. How can I assign this group to Sharepoints internal 'designers' role using Powershell. I thought that something like: stsadm -o userrole -url http://site -userlogin domain\user -role design might do the trick, but this only returns user not found, even though if I try to add the role to the user with the UI the account is there and can be added without any problems. Any thoughts anyone? Regards Gary
November 19th, 2010 9:12am

did you read this? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287679(office.12).aspx SergeSerge
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November 21st, 2010 10:07pm

Hi Gary, I have a test with an AD security group called “Group1” on my MOSS 2007 SP2, what I found is that I was unable to add a group directly to a site permission level via stsadm –o userrole command line unless it has previously been given permissions on that site. I added “Group1” to a permission level on a site for the first time using stsadm -o userrole, but I got the error message “User cannot be found”, trying to add the role through the UI came out with success though. Then, I use stsadm –o adduser, operation complete successfully and Group1 has been added to the permission level I specified in the command. After that, I can modify the permission level to Group1 using stsadm -o userrole. Seems that stsadm –o userrole can only be used to modify the permissions of a user or group that already is assigned permissions on a site. To directly add a user or a group to sites permissions you might need to use stsdam -o adduser. Hope it helps. Thanks & Regards. Lily Wu TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.comLily Wu
November 22nd, 2010 1:06am

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