Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series.
In a previous post Checking SQL Server User Role Membership we showed how to check which roles users were added to. This function allows you to add Windows Users to Server Roles. A nice simple function which can easily be piped into to allow users to be added form a list in a text file, csv file or even from Active Directory. This makes it easy to recreate Dev and Test environments and can be added to Disaster Recovery processes.
We create a Login Object, set the Logintype and create it with the Create Method. It is then added to the Role specified.
The function does some simple error checking. If the login already exists on the server it will just add it to the role and if the role has been mistyped it will let you know. It does this by checking if the Role object is Null for the Roles and the Contains Method for the Logins
The function is called as follows. To just create a login I add the user to the public role
Add-WindowsAccountToSQLRole FADE2BLACK ‘FADE2BLACK\Test’ public
The code can be found here Add-WindowsAccountToSQLRole
Tomorrow we will create and add a SQL Authenticated User
