Associate Custom Groups Using PowerShell

Niklas Goude
-Expert in Residence

You can associate Custom Groups in SharePoint 2010 as Visitor Group, Member Group or Owner Group. This is a scenario that you might encounter if you’re creating Web sites using code. To associate custom-created groups, you can use the spWeb property bag directly as shown below. First, you can retrieve a specific Web site:

PS > $spWeb = Get-SPWeb “http://SP01.powershell.nu”

Next, get the group that you want to associate:

PS > $group = $spWeb.SiteGroups[“My New Group”] 

Try this if you want to associate the Group as a Owner Group:

PS > $spWeb.Properties["vti_associateownergroup"] = $group.Id

If you want to associate the Group as a Member Group:

PS > $spWeb.Properties["vti_associatemembergroup"] = $group.ID

If you want to associate the Group as a Visitor Group:

PS > $spWeb.Properties["vti_associatevisitorgroup"] = $group.ID

When you’re done, you can use the Update() method to commit the changes:

PS > $spWeb.Properties.Update()

PS > $spWeb.Dispose()

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