I use a simple Get-ADGroup on this top level of our networks Active Directory and I get back the error "get-adgroup : cannot find an object with identity 'GroupName' under: Domain
I have tried to query the group using "Find" in Active Directory Users and Computers and it is only able to be found if set to search for Organizational Units, however if I try a Get-ADOrganizationalUnit with the name of the OU nothing will populate.
Most of the time, the group name you see from your front-end is not actually what the group name is in ActiveDirectory.
I suggest you install Active Directory Users and Computers
Query the group based on the current group name you think it is.
Open the properties and see what the actual group name is.
The fact that Get-AdGroup returned that error means you have the wrong group name.
For Get-ADGroup you have to use the objects GUID or the DistinguishedName. What I typically do with this is something like this:
Get-DistributionGroup -identity "GroupName" | select -Expand DistinguishedName | Get-ADGroup
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I am trying to get a table of permissions out of some groups that I have in AD. I'm pretty new to PowerShell and I'm not sure what I want is even possible.
So far I've been able to select the groups that I want by using
Get-ADUser -Identity groupname
And I can see the info pulled up in the response from PowerShell, but from there I've hit a huge dead-end with piping the result into anything that would let me see the permissions for that group.
I'm assuming you want the permissions to the group itself (for example, who is allowed to modify the group).
You can use Get-Acl (ACL stands for Access-Control List), which is used for getting permissions from files as well. To direct it to AD, you use the AD: drive, along with the distinguished name of the AD object. For example:
(Get-Acl "AD:CN=SomeGroup,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=com").Access
If you don't know the distinguished name, you can get that from your call to Get-ADGroup (I assume you meant to use Get-ADGroup, not Get-ADUser like you put in your question).
$group = Get-ADGroup groupname
(Get-Acl "AD:$($group.distinguishedName)").Access
More reading here: Understanding Get-ACL and AD Drive Output
I would like to find an AD group user's group's that their in and to find what those different group's notes are.
Right now, I'm trying this
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership "username" | Get-ADUser -Properties info,description
Which is giving errors. I know there must be an easy way to do this that I'm missing.
I believe this is what you're looking for, query the user's MemberOf attribute and for each group, query the group's Info and Description attributes (I've also added Name so you have that reference which I believe is important to have):
(Get-ADUser "username" -Properties MemberOf).MemberOf |
Get-ADGroup -Properties Name, Info, Description |
Select-Object Name, Info, Description
I've been working an identity management project involving Active Directory and hit a case I can't figure out the Powershell to. Essentially we are looking at the employeeID attribute, we want to find all users that have the same value in that attribute across the whole domain. Users shouldn't have the same employeeID, so if there are two or more with the same employeeID. They need to be cleaned up.
I know Powershell could do this for me but I'm not sure what commands I would need. I've been looking Get-ADUser but nothing is jumping out at me to even get started. I essentially just want a report of all users that have the same employeeID as another user so that they can be cleaned up.
You could:
Enumerate all accounts with an employeeID value
Compare and group them based on the value using Group-Object
# Fetch all user accounts with an employeeID
$employeeAccounts = Get-ADUser -Filter 'employeeID -like "*"' -Properties employeeID
# Group them by value of employeeID attribute, keep any group with more than 1 account
$accountsByEmployeeID = $employeeAccounts |Group-Object employeeID |Where-Object Count -gt 1
foreach($ID in $accountsByEmployeeID){
# $accounts will contain a list of accounts with the same employeeID
# you could send an email, file a ticket, or disable one or more of the accounts here
$accounts = $ID.Group
}
I'm trying to retrieve a list of all Ad users matching a filter, pipe that into Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership and then export the result to an easy to read CSV.
*NB I can't use MemberOf as it returns blank for every single Ad user, and most successful scripts I've found are using MemberOf.
Here's what I've tried which gives me a list of groups but no association as to who goes where. Tried to export-csv as well but it complains of an empty pipe?
import-module activedirectory
foreach ($user in (Get-AdUser -Filter {(Name -Like "*(s)") } | select samaccountName)) {
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership $user.samaccountName | select samaccountname,name
}
This will include the user's sAMAccountName in the group results:
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
ForEach ($user in (Get-AdUser -Filter {(Name -Like "*(s)") } | select sAMAccountName)) {
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership $user.sAMAccountName| select #{Expression={$user.sAMAccountName};Label="User"},sAMAccountName,name
}
That weird notation is for creating a custom table. You can read more about it here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-powershell-1.0/ee692794(v=technet.10)
Not seeing anything in memberOf may be normal. If you check in Users and Computers, do you see a value in memberOf?
The memberOf attribute will only show groups with a Universal scope in the same AD forest, Global groups on the same domain, or Domain Local groups on the same domain of the server you're reading from (which may not be the same domain as the user). So it has its limitations.
Users can also be "a member" of a group by the primaryGroupId attribute, which stores the RID (the last section of the SID) of the user's primary group. This is usually only used for the Domain Users group.
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership takes care of all of that for you. It will include the primary group and search every domain in your forest for Global and Domain Local groups that have the user as a member.
I believe I am going crazy but maybe I am missing something. I am trying to enumerate all members of Enterprise Admins. When I look in DSA.MSC GUI tool, I see something like this with no nesting:
John
Bill
Jim
Sue
Mary
Spiderman
When I perform an LDP.EXE, PowerShell, or ADSIEDIT queries, I only see this:
John
Bill
Sue
Mary
Here are some of the methods I have tried to figure this delta out:
Looked at Enterprise Admins in ADSIEDIT and view the member attribute. Doesn't list Spiderman
Looked at Enterprise Admins in LDP.EXE and view the member attribute. Doesn't list Spiderman
Ran the following PowerShell queries
Get-ADgroup 'enterprise admins' -properties members |
select -Expandproperties members
# No Spiderman listed
Get-ADuser spiderman -properties memberof |
select -Expandproperties memberof
# No Enterprise Admins listed
Get-ADObject (Get-ADuser spiderman) -properties memberof |
select -Expandproperties memberof
# No Enterprise Admins listed
Get-AdObject (Get-ADgroup 'enterprise admins') -properties member |
select -Expandproperties members
# No Spiderman listed
Get-ADGroupMembers 'Enterprise Admins'
# **Spiderman listed!!!!!!**
What am I missing here! Why is spiderman listed in ADUC/Get-AdGroupMembers and no where else. Am I going crazy?
Within Windows the primaryGroupID indicates the account's primary group is used by the posix subsystem.
Generally as Bill_Stewart said, there is never a reason to change the primaryGroupID attribute. (Since Windows Server 2003)
The primaryGroupID attribute:
The user is a member of its primary group, although the group is not listed in the user's memberOf attribute. Likewise, a group object's member attribute will not list the user objects whose primaryGroupID is set to the group.
So apparently, if I toggle the primary group ID to Enterprise admins, it hides it from from traditional queries. Once I toggle it back to Domain Users, I am able to pull the queries back.
I wonder why it does this.