It is common practice to use Columbus scripts to do administrative tasks, like create local groups and users, but Columbus has no built-in command to do this.

A very efficient way to accomplish complex tasks in packages is to use embedded VB-Script in a standard Columbus script.

The following script is an example of how to create a local group and add users and an existing global group to it.

BEGIN SCRIPT 'VBScript' 'Main' '%_machine%'

Function Main(strComputer)

ON ERROR RESUME NEXT

Const LOCAL_GROUP ="a_new_local_group"

Const GLOBAL_GROUP = "an_existing_global_group"

Const DOMAIN_NAME = "your_Domain"

Const USER1 = "an_existing_user"

Const USER2 = "an_existing_user"

'Create the Local Group

Set objComputer = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & ",computer")

Set objGroupAdd = objComputer.Create("group", LOCAL_GROUP)

objGroupAdd.SetInfo

' Add Users to the Local Group

objGroupAdd.Add "WinNT://"& DOMAIN_NAME & "/" & USER1

objGroupAdd.Add "WinNT://"& DOMAIN_NAME & "/" & USER2

' Add a Global Group to the Local Group

objgroupAdd.add "WinNT://"& DOMAIN_NAME & "/" & GLOBAL_GROUP

End Function

END SCRIPT