One of the many built in tasks that are provided in RES Automation Manager is the ablility to add users or groups to a local group on a server or desktop. The task does what it says on the tin but one unknown fact (well to me at least until I tried it) is you can also add computers to a local group too using the same task. A very simple example of this would be when using Remote Desktop Services and the Remote Desktop Connection Broker. In this example each Remote Desktop Session Host that is participating in the farm needs to be added to a local group on the Remote Desktop Connection Broker called “Session Broker Computers”.
To add a computer to the local group you simply need to add a dollar ($) after the computer name in the “User(s) and/or group(s) to add” field as you can see in the screen shot below.
It’s as simple as that!!
Nathan
