Windows – Get list of AD groups a user is a member of

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Suppose I have the user id of a user in Active Directory. I'd like to get a list of all AD groups in which that user is currently a member of. How can I do this from the Windows command line?

I've tried the following:

dsget user "DC=jxd123" -memberof

Error:

dsquery failed:'-memberof' is an unknown parameter.
type dsquery /? for help.

Best Answer

You can do this in PowerShell pretty easily. I'm sure you can do it with the ds tools too, but they're old and crusty and PowerShell should be used for everything possible nowadays.

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
(Get-ADUser userName –Properties MemberOf | Select-Object MemberOf).MemberOf

Shorter version

(Get-ADUser userName –Properties MemberOf).MemberOf
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