Setting permissions on a virtual machine

We run a VM hosting service. I wrote scripts to create, delete, and update virtual machines. The problem I have is setting permissions on a virtual machine. We have groups Active Directory (AD) for the management of the permissions on the virtual machines. I am able to manually add these ad groups tab permissions on a virtual machine using the vCenter console, but I could not describe the process. We run 5.0 vCenter. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi B

Assuming that you do not have many ads with replication issues Sites / ore something latency... maybe this could be a problem:

In my script I user QAD Cmdlets... as I wrote this powershell script was without value 'default' - module

It might be the QAD Cmdlets to return the other default strings them from Microsoft.

I suggest you play with this line in order to get a response... I'm not able to test this now... excuse... :

$perm.principal = $mrdgrp

# Does 'primary' eventualy implies PrincipalName? Something like:

$perm.principal = ' VMCA_group_name@C***. EDU'

# Or second try...

"$perm.principal = ' C * \VMCA_group_name.

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