I think dsquery group "fqdn of group" -expand>>name_of_txt will dump the
group members inside a group u might need to also put a -limit 5000 switch
also.

On Apr 25, 2017 2:07 AM, "Russ" <shouldab...@gmail.com> wrote:

> OK - is there a way that you know of to use a command line tool to pull
> that information accurately?  It seems like if a cmdlet is inaccurate, it
> is pretty useless.
>
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Brian Desmond <br...@briandesmond.com>
> wrote:
>
>> MemberOf is a constructed attribute which the cmdlets may not be
>> requesting correctly or at all. ADUC makes specific calls to AD to get that
>> data.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brian Desmond
>>
>>
>>
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>> *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitf
>> orum.com] *On Behalf Of *Russ
>> *Sent:* Monday, April 24, 2017 4:32 PM
>> *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com
>> *Subject:* [NTSysADM] Get group membership through powershell
>>
>>
>>
>> I've often used powershell to get the groups that a user is a member of
>> by using get-adprincipalgroupmembership.  It's always worked to my
>> knowledge.
>>
>>
>>
>> However, I've found one group which doesn't show up for anyone - so I was
>> curious if anyone has run into this before.  If I run get-adgroupmember for
>> the group, everyone shows up who should be there, but if I try to run the
>> reverse on any of the users who are a member of the group, it doesn't show
>> up - it just returns "domain users".
>>
>>
>>
>> If I try get-aduser with -properties "memberof", nothing shows up for
>> that property at all.  (not even domain users, but I think that's normal?).
>>
>>
>>
>> If you go into ADUC and look up the user, the two groups (this one, and
>> domain users) show up just fine.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know of a circumstance why this wouldn't return a value?
>>
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