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Active Directory with PowerShell

You're reading from   Active Directory with PowerShell Learn to configure and manage Active Directory using PowerShell in an efficient and smart way

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782175995
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let's Get Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing User and Computer Objects 3. Working with Active Directory Groups and Memberships 4. Configuring Group Policies 5. Managing Domains, Organizational Units, Sites, and Subnets 6. Advanced AD Operations Using PowerShell 7. Managing DFS-N and DFS-R Using PowerShell 8. Managing Active Directory DNS Using PowerShell 9. Miscellaneous Scripts and Resources for Further Learning Index

Getting membership of a user, computer, and group


The function used in this section will help in finding out the group membership of users, computers, or groups. The output of this function is the same as what you will see in the MemberOf tab in the object properties. This function takes two types of input. The first one is the Name parameter and it takes a list of objects for which you want to query the membership details. The second one is the Type parameter, which indicates the class of the objects that you supplied to the Name parameter:

Function Get-ADobjectMembership {
[CmdletBinding()]
param(
  [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,Position=0)]
  [string[]]$Name,
  [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,Position=1)]
  [ValidateSet("User","Group","Computer")]
  [string]$Type
)
Foreach($ObjName in $Name) {
    try {
        $MemberOf = @(Get-ADObject -Filter { Name -eq $ObjName -and ObjectClass -eq $Type} -Properties MemberOf -EA Stop | select -ExpandProperty MemberOf)
        if(!$MemberOf) {
           ...
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