Using PowerShell to view AD Groups and Members

Similar to how I have demonstrated with Users and Computers, you can use a get-command in active directory to view basic information regarding AD Groups. The Command below shows your basic Get-ADGroup command:

Get-ADGroup GroupName

The results shown should be similar to this:

Also, as demonstrated before, you can view all of the properties associated with an AD Group. That command would look like this:

Get-ADGroup GroupName -Properties *

But let’s say you are really just interested in viewing the members of that particular group. That requires a different command:

Get-ADGroupMember GroupName

This will provide you with a list of members and various properties associated with each User Object, but all we are really interested in is generating a list of usernames for the membership. In order to do that, we would want our command to look something like this:

Get-ADGroupMember GroupName |Select-Object name