PowerShell's Get-ADGroupMember
cmdlet returns members of a specific group. Is there a cmdlet or property to get all the groups that a particular user is a member of?
I fixed my mistake: Get-Member
should be Get-ADGroupMember
.
PowerShell's Get-ADGroupMember
cmdlet returns members of a specific group. Is there a cmdlet or property to get all the groups that a particular user is a member of?
I fixed my mistake: Get-Member
should be Get-ADGroupMember
.
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership will do this.
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership username | select name
name
----
Domain Users
Domain Computers
Workstation Admins
Company Users
Company Developers
AutomatedProcessingTeam
Single line, no modules necessary, uses current logged user:
(New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher("(&(objectCategory=User)(samAccountName=$($env:username)))")).FindOne().GetDirectoryEntry().memberOf
Qudos to this vbs/powershell article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730963.aspx
A more concise alternative to the one posted by Canoas, to get group membership for the currently-logged-on user.
I came across this method in this blog post: http://www.travisrunyard.com/2013/03/26/auto-create-outlook-mapi-user-profiles/
([ADSISEARCHER]"samaccountname=$($env:USERNAME)").Findone().Properties.memberof
An even better version which uses a regex to strip the LDAP guff and leaves the group names only:
([ADSISEARCHER]"samaccountname=$($env:USERNAME)").Findone().Properties.memberof -replace '^CN=([^,]+).+$','$1'
More details about using the [ADSISEARCHER] type accelerator can be found on the scripting guy blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/08/24/use-the-powershell-adsisearcher-type-accelerator-to-search-active-directory.aspx
(GET-ADUSER –Identity USERNAME –Properties MemberOf | Select-Object MemberOf).MemberOf
Old school way from CMD:
net user mst999 /domain
Get group membership for a user:
$strUserName = "Primoz"
$strUser = get-qaduser -SamAccountName $strUserName
$strUser.memberof
See Get Group Membership for a User
But also see Quest's Free PowerShell Commands for Active Directory.
[Edit: Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership command is included in Powershell since v2 with Windows 2008 R2. See kstrauss' answer below.]
Get-Member
is a cmdlet for listing the members of a .NET object
. This has nothing to do with user/group membership. You can get the current user's group membership like so:
PS> [System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent().Groups |
Format-Table -auto
BinaryLength AccountDomainSid Value
------------ ---------------- -----
28 S-1-5-21-... S-1-5-21-2229937839-1383249143-3977914998-513
12 S-1-1-0
28 S-1-5-21-... S-1-5-21-2229937839-1383249143-3977914998-1010
28 S-1-5-21-... S-1-5-21-2229937839-1383249143-3977914998-1003
16 S-1-5-32-545
...
If you need access to arbitrary users' group info then @tiagoinu suggestion of using the Quest AD cmdlets is a better way to go.
No need for long scripts when it is a simple one liner..
QUEST Command
(Get-QADUser -Identity john -IncludedProperties MemberOf | Select-Object MemberOf).MemberOf
MS AD Command
(GET-ADUSER –Identity john –Properties MemberOf | Select-Object MemberOf).MemberOf
I find the MS AD cmd is faster but some people like the Quest ones better..
Steve
Get-Member is not for getting user's group membership. If you want to get a list of groups a user belongs to on the local system, you can do so by:
$query = "ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_Account.Name='DemoUser1',Domain='DomainName'} WHERE ResultRole=GroupComponent ResultClass=Win32_Account"
Get-WMIObject -Query $query | Select Name
In the above query, replace DemoUser1 with the username you want and the DomainName with either your local computer name or domain name.
Use:
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership username | select name | export-CSV username.csv
This pipes output of the command into a CSV file.
It is just one line:
(get-aduser joe.bloggs -properties *).memberof
end of :)
First, import the activedirectory module:
import-module activedirectory
Then issue this command:
Get-ADGroupMember -Identity $group | foreach-object {
Write-Host $_.SamAccountName
}
This will display the members of the specified group.
The below works well:
get-aduser $username -Properties memberof | select -expand memberof
If you have a list of users:
$list = 'administrator','testuser1','testuser2'
$list | `
%{
$user = $_;
get-aduser $user -Properties memberof | `
select -expand memberof | `
%{new-object PSObject -property @{User=$user;Group=$_;}} `
}
I wrote a PowerShell function called Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembershipRecursive. It accepts the DSN of a user, computer, group, or service account. It retrieves an initial list of groups from the account's memberOf attribute, then recursively checks those group's memberships. Abbreviated code is below. Full source code with comments can be found here.
function Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembershipRecursive( ) {
Param(
[string] $dsn,
[array]$groups = @()
)
$obj = Get-ADObject $dsn -Properties memberOf
foreach( $groupDsn in $obj.memberOf ) {
$tmpGrp = Get-ADObject $groupDsn -Properties memberOf
if( ($groups | where { $_.DistinguishedName -eq $groupDsn }).Count -eq 0 ) {
$groups += $tmpGrp
$groups = Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembershipRecursive $groupDsn $groups
}
}
return $groups
}
# Simple Example of how to use the function
$username = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter a username"
$groups = Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembershipRecursive (Get-ADUser $username).DistinguishedName
$groups | Sort-Object -Property name | Format-Table
Get-QADUser -SamAccountName LoginID | % {$_.MemberOf } | Get-QADGroup | select name
I couldn't get the following to work for a particular user:
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership username
It threw an error that I was not willing to troubleshoot.
I did however come up with a different solution using Get-ADUser. I like it a bit better because if you don't know the account name then you can get it based off of a wildcard on the user's actual name. Just fill in PartOfUsersName and away it goes.
#Get the groups that list of users are the member of using a wildcard search
[string]$UserNameLike = "*PartOfUsersName*" #Use * for wildcards here
[array]$AccountNames = $(Get-ADUser -Filter {Name -like $UserNameLike}).SamAccountName
ForEach ($AccountName In $AccountNames) {
Write-Host "`nGETTING GROUPS FOR" $AccountName.ToUpper() ":"
(Get-ADUser -Identity $AccountName -Properties MemberOf|select MemberOf).MemberOf|
Get-ADGroup|select Name|sort name
}
Huge props to schmeckendeugler and 8DH for getting me to this solution. +1 to both of you.
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
Get-ADUser -SearchBase "OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=local" -Filter * | foreach-object {
write-host "User:" $_.Name -foreground green
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership $_.SamAccountName | foreach-object {
write-host "Member Of:" $_.name
}
}
Change the value of -SearchBase to reflect the OU you need to list the users from :)
This will list all of the users in that OU and show you which groups they are a member of.
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership USERLOGON | select name
Get-ADUser -Filter { memberOf -RecursiveMatch "CN=Administrators,CN=Builtin,DC=Fabrikam,DC=com" } -SearchBase "CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=Fabrikam,DC=com" -SearchScope Base
## NOTE: The above command will return the user object (Administrator in this case) if it finds a match recursively in memberOf attribute.
This is the simplest way to just get the names:
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership "YourUserName"
# Returns
distinguishedName : CN=users,OU=test,DC=SomeWhere
GroupCategory : Security
GroupScope : Global
name : testGroup
objectClass : group
objectGUID : 2130ed49-24c4-4a17-88e6-dd4477d15a4c
SamAccountName : testGroup
SID : S-1-5-21-2114067515-1964795913-1973001494-71628
Add a select statement to trim the response or to get every user in an OU every group they are a user of:
foreach ($user in (get-aduser -SearchScope Subtree -SearchBase $oupath -filter * -Properties samaccountName, MemberOf | select samaccountName)){
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership $user.samaccountName | select name}
To get it recursive, you can use:
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Get all the groups that a user is MemberOf.
.DESCRIPTION
This script retrieves all the groups that a user is MemberOf in a recursive way.
.PARAMETER SamAccountName
The name of the user you want to check #>
Param (
[String]$SamAccountName = 'test',
$DomainUsersGroup = 'CN=Domain Users,CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=net'
)
Function Get-ADMemberOf {
Param (
[Parameter(ValueFromPipeline)]
[PSObject[]]$Group,
[String]$DomainUsersGroup = 'CN=Domain Users,CN=Users,DC=grouphc,DC=net'
)
Process {
foreach ($G in $Group) {
$G | Get-ADGroup | Select -ExpandProperty Name
Get-ADGroup $G -Properties MemberOf| Select-Object Memberof | ForEach-Object {
Get-ADMemberOf $_.Memberof
}
}
}
}
$Groups = Get-ADUser $SamAccountName -Properties MemberOf | Select-Object -ExpandProperty MemberOf
$Groups += $DomainUsersGroup
$Groups | Get-ADMemberOf | Select -Unique | Sort-Object
Almost all above solutions used the ActiveDirecotry
module which might not be available by default in most cases.
I used below method. A bit indirect, but served my purpose.
List all available groups
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Group
And then list the groups the user belongs to
[System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent().Groups
Comparison can then be done via checking through the SIDs
. This works for the logged in user. Please correct me if I am wrong. Completely new to PowerShell, but had to get this done for a work commitment.
With user input and fancy output formatting:
[CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$True)]
Param(
[Parameter(Mandatory = $True)]
[String]$UserName
)
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
If ($UserName) {
$UserName = $UserName.ToUpper().Trim()
$Res = (Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership $UserName | Measure-Object).Count
If ($Res -GT 0) {
Write-Output "`n"
Write-Output "$UserName AD Group Membership:"
Write-Output "==========================================================="
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership $UserName | Select-Object -Property Name, GroupScope, GroupCategory | Sort-Object -Property Name | FT -A
}
}
Whe you do not have privileges to consult other member groups but you have the privilege to consult group members. you can do the following to build you a map of which user has access to which groups.
$groups = get-adgroup -Filter * | sort name | select Name
$users = @{}
foreach($group in $groups) {
$groupUsers = @()
$groupUsers = Get-ADGroupMember -Identity $group.Name | Select-Object SamAccountName
$groupUsers | % {
if(!$users.ContainsKey($_.SamAccountName)){
$users[$_.SamAccountName] = @()
}
($users[$_.SamAccountName]) += ($group.Name)
}
}
Putting this here for future reference. I'm in the midst of an email migration. I need to know each user account and its respective group membership, and also I need to know each group and its respective members.
I'm using the code block below to output a CSV for each user's group membership.
Get-ADUser -Filter * |`
ForEach-Object { `
$FileName = $_.SamAccountName + ".csv" ; `
$FileName ; `
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership $_ | `
Select-Object -Property SamAccountName, name, GroupScope, GroupCategory | `
Sort-Object -Property SamAccountName | `
Export-Csv -Path $FileName -Encoding ASCII ; `
}
The export process for the groups and their respective members was a little convoluted, but the below works. The output filenames include the type of group. Therefore, the email distribution groups I need are/should be the Universal and Global Distribution groups. I should be able to just delete or move the resulting TXT files I don't need.
Get-ADGroup -Filter * | `
Select-Object -Property Name, DistinguishedName, GroupScope, GroupCategory | `
Sort-Object -Property GroupScope, GroupCategory, Name | `
Export-Csv -Path ADGroupsNew.csv -Encoding ASCII
$MyCSV = Import-Csv -Path .\ADGroupsNew.csv -Encoding ASCII
$MyCSV | `
ForEach-Object { `
$FN = $_.GroupScope + ", " + $_.GroupCategory + ", " + $_.Name + ".txt" ; `
$FN ; `
Get-ADGroupMember -Identity $_.DistinguishedName | `
Out-File -FilePath $FN -Encoding ASCII ; $FN=""; `
}
If you cannot get Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership to work for you could try logging in as that user then use.
$id = [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()
$groups = $id.Groups | foreach-object {$_.Translate([Security.Principal.NTAccount])}
$groups | select *
Studying all comments presented gave me a starting point (thanks for such) but left me with several unresolved issues. As result here is my answer. The code snippet provided does a little more than what is asked for but it provides helpful debugging info.
[array] $script:groupsdns = @()
function Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembershipRecursive()
{
Param( [string] $dn, [int] $level = 0, [array] $groups = @() )
#if(($groupsdns | where { $_.DistinguishedName -eq $dn }).Count -ne 0 ) { return $groups } # dependency on next statement
#$groupsdns += (Get-ADObject $dn -Properties MemberOf) # Get-ADObject cannot find an object with identity
if ($script:groupsdns.Contains($dn)) { return $groups }
$script:groupsdns += $dn
$mo = $Null
$mo = Get-ADObject $dn -Properties MemberOf # Get-ADObject cannot find an object with identity
$group = ($dn + " (" + $level.ToString())
if ($mo -eq $Null) { $group += "!" }
$group += ")"
$groups += $group
foreach( $groupdn in $mo.MemberOf )
{
$groups = Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembershipRecursive -dn $groupdn -level ($level+1) -groups $groups
}
if ($level -le 0)
{
$primarygroupdn = (Get-ADUser -Identity $dn -Properties PrimaryGroup).PrimaryGroup
$groups = Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembershipRecursive -dn $primarygroupdn -level ($level+1) -groups $groups
}
return $groups
}
$adusergroups = Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembershipRecursive -dn $aduser.DistinguishedName
$adusergroups | ft -AutoSize | `
Out-File -Width 512 Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembershipRecursive.txt #-Append #-Wrap # | Sort-Object -Property Name
While there are many excellent answers here, there is one which I was personally looking for that was missing. Once I figured it out - I thought I should post it in case I want to find it later, or it actually manages to help someone else at some point:
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership username | Format-Table -auto
A second approach for presenting this is to specify the individual columns you are interested in eg:
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership username | select name, GroupScope, GroupCategory
This gives all the AD groups the username belongs to - but also presents all of the default properties of each group formatted nicely as a table.
The key benefit this gives you is you can see at a glance which are distribution lists, & which are Security groups. You can further see at a glance which are Universal, which are DomainLocal & which are Global.
Why would you care about this last bit?