As mentioned before, there are different types of security groups available in Active Directory: global, domain local, and universal. You may refer to the TechNet article at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755692(v=ws.10).aspx to know more about group scopes.

To create a new group in Active Directory, the New-ADGroup cmdlet can be used. This cmdlet accepts three parameters. These are name of the group, the Organizational Unit path in AD, and groupScope, such as domain local/global/universal. Of these, name and groupScope need to be provided mandatorily.

Here is the simple command line to create a new blank AD group in AD with no members in it.

The following command creates a new Active Directory group of type DomainLocal in the specified OU:

New-ADGroup -Name "Test Group1" -Path  "OU=Groups,OU=Prod,DC=techibee,DC=ad" -groupScope domainlocal

Similarly, to create other group types, change the parameter -groupScope. The following sample...