Removing a user from a SharePoint Group using PowerShell

 

If you read my earlier post about Adding a User to a SharePoint Group using PowerShell (http://samirvaidya.blogspot.com/2014/05/adding-user-to-sharepoint-group-using.html), you are probably also interested in Removing a User from a SharePoint Group using PowerShell:

$url = "https://sharepointdev.spfarm.spcorp.com/sites/mysitecoll"

$userName = "spfarm\sp2013_svc"

$site = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($url) 

$web = $site.OpenWeb() 

$siteGroups = $web.Groups;

Clear-Host

$mySiteGroups = @(); 

foreach($group in $siteGroups) 

{ 

    Write-Host $group

    $mySiteGroups += $group;

}#foreach

$members = $web.Groups[$mySiteGroups[0]];

$owners = $web.Groups[$mySiteGroups[1]];

$visitors = $web.Groups[$mySiteGroups[2]];

#Convert the user name to an SPUser account

$spUser = $web.Site.RootWeb.EnsureUser($userName);

Write-Host $spUser.ID

$owners.RemoveUser($spUser)

#This method also works but prompts the user to verify that the user should be removed

#Remove-SPUser -Identity $spUser -Web $url -Group $owners

$web.Update();

$web.Dispose();

Write-Host "User " $userName   "removed from " $owners