PowerShell: Read user’s groups from Active Directory
Here’s a short PowerShell function to retrieve a list of a user’s groups from Active Directory: function getADGroups($username) { $root = ([adsi]””).distinguishedName; $searcher = new-object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher($root); $searcher.filter = “(&(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=$username))”; $user = $searcher.findall(); $groupNames = @(); if ($user.count -eq 1) { $groups = $user[0].Properties.memberof; [regex]$regex = “^CN=(.*?),”; $groups | % {…