Adding Multiple Users to an AD Group at One Time

Is there a way in VBScript or VB.net to do the following:

Given a large number (say 2000) users that already exist in AD, is
there a way to add them at one time to a group?

I do not want to add them one at a time using a FOR EACH loop. I want
to batch them up so I only make one trip to the server for performance
reasons.

Hi
Adding them using a loop is basically the same as you repeat each command
multiple times for each user, I don't see any performance advantages doing
that.
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"DW" <damienwalkeriphone@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way in VBScript or VB.net to do the following:
>
> Given a large number (say 2000) users that already exist in AD, is
> there a way to add them at one time to a group?
>
> I do not want to add them one at a time using a FOR EACH loop. I want
> to batch them up so I only make one trip to the server for performance
> reasons.

You need to get a user and then add that user to the group and then repeat.
No way around this.

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"DW" <damienwalkeriphone@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:f592eeff-23da-4534-9d1a-ac925c6304ad@r18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
> Is there a way in VBScript or VB.net to do the following:
>
> Given a large number (say 2000) users that already exist in AD, is
> there a way to add them at one time to a group?
>
> I do not want to add them one at a time using a FOR EACH loop. I want
> to batch them up so I only make one trip to the server for performance
> reasons.