How to get ALL AD user groups (recursively) with Powershell or other tools?

Question

I'm trying to get ALL the groups a user is member, even the nested ones (recusively), in Powershell I'm using:

(Get-ADUser <username> -Properties MemberOf | Select-Object MemberOf).MemberOf

But it only returns the groups the user is a "direct" member, like you get when using the AD users console. I single list of ALL the groups is very helpful, like the output from "gpresult -r", where it shows ALL the groups the user is a member.

Is there a way to get it from any AD user? (Doesnt need to be exclusively in Powershell, maybe theres another tool that I dont know yet)

Answer 1

You can use the LDAP_MATCHING_RULE_IN_CHAIN:

Get-ADGroup -LDAPFilter "(member:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=CN=User,CN=USers,DC=x)"

You can use it anywahere that you can use an LDAP filter.

Example:

$username = 'myUsername'
$dn = (Get-ADUser $username).DistinguishedName
Get-ADGroup -LDAPFilter ("(member:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:={0})" -f $dn) | select -expand Name | sort Name

Answer 2

Or, you can use the constructed attribute tokenGroups and a base-scoped query:

$tokenGroups = Get-ADUser -SearchScope Base -SearchBase '<account-distinguishedName>' `
-LDAPFilter '(objectClass=user)' -Properties tokenGroups | Select-Object `
-ExpandProperty tokenGroups | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Value