Copy Site Group

This operation allows you to create a SharePoint group based on an existing group. The new group’s characteristics are based on the source group used to create it, but do not include the members.

Name	Description	Required
description	The description of the new SharePoint group.	Yes
destination	The name of the resulting SharePoint group.	Yes
source	The name of the SharePoint group to copy.	Yes
url	The URL of the site where the SharePoint group will be copied.	Yes

The following example creates a new group called Manager, whose characteristics are based on the Contributor group:

svadm.exe –o copysitegroup –url http://localhost/sv/documents -source "Contributor" –destination "Manager" –description "Default manager group"

You can also run a batch file to automate the creation of multiple site groups. To do this, create a batch file for each site group you that want to copy/create that contains the following and run it from \Program Files\ShareVis\bin:

svadm.exe -o copysitegroup -url http://server/site -source "source group name" -destination "destination group name" -description "description of group"