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Active Directory Administration Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   Active Directory Administration Cookbook, Second Edition Proven solutions to everyday identity and authentication challenges for both on-premises and the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803242507
Length 696 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Optimizing Forests, Domains, and Trusts 2. Chapter 2: Managing Domain Controllers FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Managing Active Directory Roles and Features 4. Chapter 4: Managing Containers and Organizational Units 5. Chapter 5: Managing Active Directory Sites and Troubleshooting Replication 6. Chapter 6: Managing Active Directory Users 7. Chapter 7: Managing Active Directory Groups 8. Chapter 8: Managing Active Directory Computers 9. Chapter 9: Managing DNS 10. Chapter 10: Getting the Most Out of Group Policy 11. Chapter 11: Securing Active Directory 12. Chapter 12: Managing Certificates 13. Chapter 13: Managing Federation 14. Chapter 14: Handling Authentication in a Hybrid World (AD FS, PHS, PTA, and DSSO) 15. Chapter 15: Handling Synchronization in a Hybrid World (Azure AD Connect) 16. Chapter 16: Hardening Azure AD 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Viewing nested group memberships

This recipe demonstrates how to enumerate all members of a group, even those members in groups that are members of the same group.

Getting ready

To view nested group memberships for a group, sign in to a domain controller, a member server, or a device with RSAT for Active Directory Domain Services installed.

Sign in with a domain account.

How to do it...

To view nested group memberships, double-click the groups listed on the Members tab in the properties of a group and look at its members. When groups are heavily nested, though, this becomes tedious fast. A much better approach is to use Windows PowerShell.

Use the following line of PowerShell to enumerate all group memberships in Active Directory for a group on a system with the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell installed:

Get-ADGroupMember -Identity 'CN=Group,OU=Organizational Unit,DC=LucernPub,DC=com' -Recursive | Out-GridView

Replace DC=LucernPub,DC...

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