Get-ActiveDirectoryGroupMembership

NAME Get-ActiveDirectoryGroupMembership



SYNOPSIS

Get the groups an Active Directory object is a member of.





SYNTAX

Get-ActiveDirectoryGroupMembership [-Identity] <String> [-Recurse] [<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

Get the groups an Active Directory object is a member of having the option to include

all the groups (including groups that are nested).





PARAMETERS

-Identity <String>

The object to check it's membership



Required? true

Position? 1

Default value

Accept pipeline input? true (ByValue, ByPropertyName)

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Recurse [<SwitchParameter>]

Recursive query



Required? false

Position? named

Default value False

Accept pipeline input? false

Accept wildcard characters? false



<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,

ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,

OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see

about_CommonParameters (https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).



INPUTS



OUTPUTS



-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------



PS C:\\>Get-ActiveDirectoryGroupMembership -Identity "CN=Christos Polydorou,CN=Users,DC=lab,DC=local"



DistinguishedName GroupCategory GroupScope Name

ObjectClass ObjectGUID SamAccountName SID



----------------- ------------- ---------- ----

----------- ---------- -------------- ---



CN=Test Group 1 Nested,OU=Tes... Security Global Test Group 1

Nested group 326195ba-2d8b-40f0-8a39-1c08... Test Group 1 Nested

S-1-5-21-3554682577-58629175...



The user is a direct member of the group "Test Group 1 Nested" only.









-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------



PS C:\\>Get-ActiveDirectoryGroupMembership -Identity "CN=Christos Polydorou,CN=Users,DC=lab,DC=local" -Recurse



DistinguishedName GroupCategory GroupScope Name

ObjectClass ObjectGUID SamAccountName SID



----------------- ------------- ---------- ----

----------- ---------- -------------- ---



CN=Test Group 1 Parent,OU=Tes... Security Global Test Group 1

Parent group d19916ff-106a-49c4-9aa6-78fa... Test Group 1 Parent

S-1-5-21-3554682577-58629175...

CN=Test Group 1,OU=Test_OU,DC... Security Global Test Group 1

group 9c11c15f-d4e5-4afe-9f1a-06db... Test Group 1

S-1-5-21-3554682577-58629175...

CN=Test Group 1 Nested,OU=Tes... Security Global Test Group 1

Nested group 326195ba-2d8b-40f0-8a39-1c08... Test Group 1 Nested

S-1-5-21-3554682577-58629175...



The user is a direct member of the group "Test Group 1 Nested" only. The "Test Group 1 Nested" is a member of

"Test Group 1" which in turn is a member of "Test Group 1 Parent". Thus the user is concidered a member of all

groups











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