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Published inJul 2022
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781803242507
Edition2nd Edition
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Sander Berkouwer
Sander Berkouwer
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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
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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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Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Published in: Jul 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803242507

Author (1)

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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
Read more about Sander Berkouwer