Get-ADAccountAuthorizationGroup
Gets the accounts token group information.
Syntax
Get-ADAccountAuthorizationGroup
[-AuthType <ADAuthType>]
[-Credential <PSCredential>]
[-Identity] <ADAccount>
[-Partition <String>]
[-Server <String>]
[<CommonParameters>] Description
The Get-ADAuthorizationGroup cmdlet gets the security groups from the specified user, computer or service accounts token. This cmdlet requires a global catalog to perform the group search. If the forest that contains the account does not have a global catalog, the cmdlet returns a non-terminating error.
The Identity parameter specifies the user, computer, or service account. You can identify a user, computer, or service account object by its distinguished name (DN), GUID, security identifier (SID), Security Account Manager (SAM) account name or user principal name. You can also set the Identity parameter to an account object variable, such as $<localAccountObject>, or pass an account object through the pipeline to the Identity parameter. For example, you can use the Get-ADUser, Get-ADComputer, Get-ADServiceAccount or Search-ADAccount cmdlets to retrieve an account object and then pass the object through the pipeline to the Get-ADAccountAuthorizationGroup cmdlet.
Examples
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------
C:\PS>Get-ADAccountAuthorizationGroup GlenJohn
GroupScope : DomainLocal
objectGUID : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
GroupCategory : Security
SamAccountName : Everyone
name : Everyone
objectClass :
SID : S-1-1-0
distinguishedName :
GroupScope : DomainLocal
objectGUID : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
GroupCategory : Security
SamAccountName : Authenticated Users
name : Authenticated Users
objectClass :
SID : S-1-5-11
distinguishedName :
GroupScope : Global
objectGUID : 86c0f0d5-8b4d-4f35-a867-85a006b92902
GroupCategory : Security
SamAccountName : Domain Users
name : Domain Users
objectClass : group
SID : S-1-5-21-41432690-3719764436-1984117282-513
distinguishedName : CN=Domain Users,CN=Users,DC=Fabrikam,DC=com
GroupScope : DomainLocal
objectGUID : 869fb7ad-8cf2-4dd0-ac0f-4bd3bf324669
GroupCategory : Security
SamAccountName : Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access
name : Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access
objectClass : group
SID : S-1-5-32-554
distinguishedName : CN=Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access,CN=Builtin,DC=Fabrikam,DC=com
GroupScope : DomainLocal
objectGUID : c1e397c5-1e44-4270-94d1-88d6c4b78ee6
GroupCategory : Security
SamAccountName : Users
name : Users
objectClass : group
SID : S-1-5-32-545
distinguishedName : CN=Users,CN=Builtin,DC=Fabrikam,DC=comDescription
Returns all security groups for the specified account with SamAccountName: GlenJohn.
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------
C:\PS>Get-ADAccountAuthorizationGroup "cn=GlenJohn,dc=AppNC" -Server <Server>:50000
distinguishedName : CN=AdminGroup,DC=AppNC
GroupCategory : Security
GroupScope : Global
name : AdminGroup
objectClass : group
objectGUID : 4d72873f-fe09-4834-9ada-a905636d10df
SamAccountName :
SID : S-1-510474493-936115905-4021890855-1253703389-3958791574-3542197427Description
Returns all security groups for the specified account with DistinguishedName: "cn=GlenJohn,dc=AppNC" in the AD LDS instance: <Server>:50000.
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 3 --------------------------
C:\PS>Get-ADAccountAuthorizationGroup -Server <Server>:50000 -Identity Administrator | where { $_.objectClass -ne $null } | ft name, objectClass
name objectClass
---- -----------
Domain Users group
Administrators group
Users group
Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access group
Group Policy Creator Owners group
Domain Admins group
Enterprise Admins group
Schema Admins group
Denied RODC Password Replication Group groupDescription
Returns a filtered list of built-in security groups which do not have an empty or null setting for objectclass (such as Everyone or Authenticated Users). (Note: This type of filtering of groups in output can be useful when piping the output of this cmdlet to be used as input to other Active Directory cmdlets.)
Parameters
-AuthType
Specifies the authentication method to use. Possible values for this parameter include:
Negotiate or 0
Basic or 1
The default authentication method is Negotiate.
A Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection is required for the Basic authentication method.
The following example shows how to set this parameter to Basic.
-AuthType Basic
| Type: | ADAuthType |
| Accepted values: | Negotiate, Basic |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.AuthType.Negotiate |
| Required: | False |
| Accept pipeline input: | False |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-Credential
Specifies the user account credentials to use to perform this task. The default credentials are the credentials of the currently logged on user unless the cmdlet is run from an Active Directory PowerShell provider drive. If the cmdlet is run from such a provider drive, the account associated with the drive is the default.
To specify this parameter, you can type a user name, such as "User1" or "Domain01\User01" or you can specify a PSCredential object. If you specify a user name for this parameter, the cmdlet prompts for a password.
You can also create a PSCredential object by using a script or by using the Get-Credential cmdlet. You can then set the Credential parameter to the PSCredential object The following example shows how to create credentials.
$AdminCredentials = Get-Credential "Domain01\User01"
The following shows how to set the Credential parameter to these credentials.
-Credential $AdminCredentials
If the acting credentials do not have directory-level permission to perform the task, Active Directory PowerShell returns a terminating error.
| Type: | PSCredential |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | False |
| Accept pipeline input: | False |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-Identity
Specifies an Active Directory account object by providing one of the following property values. The identifier in parentheses is the LDAP display name for the attribute.
Distinguished Name
Example: CN=SaraDavis ,CN=Users,DC=corp,DC=contoso,DC=com
GUID (objectGUID)
Example: 599c3d2e-f72d-4d20-8a88-030d99495f20
Security Identifier (objectSid)
Example: S-1-5-21-3165297888-301567370-576410423-1103
SAM Account Name (sAMAccountName)
Example: saradavis
The cmdlet searches the default naming context or partition to find the object. If two or more objects are found, the cmdlet returns a non-terminating error.
This parameter can also get this object through the pipeline or you can set this parameter to an account object instance.
Derived types such as the following are also accepted:
Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADUser
Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADComputer
Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADServiceAccount
This example shows how to set the parameter to a distinguished name.
-Identity "CN=saradavis,CN=Users,DC=corp,DC=contoso,DC=com"
This example shows how to set this parameter to an account object instance named "accountInstance".
-Identity $accountInstance
| Type: | ADAccount |
| Position: | 0 |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | True |
| Accept pipeline input: | True |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-Partition
Specifies the distinguished name of an Active Directory partition. The distinguished name must be one of the naming contexts on the current directory server. The cmdlet searches this partition to find the object defined by the Identity parameter.
The following two examples show how to specify a value for this parameter.
-Partition "CN=Configuration,DC=EUROPE,DC=TEST,DC=CONTOSO,DC=COM"
-Partition "CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=EUROPE,DC=TEST,DC=CONTOSO,DC=COM"
In many cases, a default value will be used for the Partition parameter if no value is specified. The rules for determining the default value are given below. Note that rules listed first are evaluated first and once a default value can be determined, no further rules will be evaluated.
In AD DS environments, a default value for Partition will be set in the following cases: - If the Identity parameter is set to a distinguished name, the default value of Partition is automatically generated from this distinguished name.
- If running cmdlets from an Active Directory provider drive, the default value of Partition is automatically generated from the current path in the drive.
- If none of the previous cases apply, the default value of Partition will be set to the default partition or naming context of the target domain.
In AD LDS environments, a default value for Partition will be set in the following cases:
- If the Identity parameter is set to a distinguished name, the default value of Partition is automatically generated from this distinguished name.
- If running cmdlets from an Active Directory provider drive, the default value of Partition is automatically generated from the current path in the drive.
- If the target AD LDS instance has a default naming context, the default value of Partition will be set to the default naming context. To specify a default naming context for an AD LDS environment, set the msDS-defaultNamingContext property of the Active Directory directory service agent (DSA) object (nTDSDSA) for the AD LDS instance.
- If none of the previous cases apply, the Partition parameter will not take any default value.
| Type: | String |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | False |
| Accept pipeline input: | False |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-Server
Specifies the Active Directory Domain Services instance to connect to, by providing one of the following values for a corresponding domain name or directory server. The service may be any of the following: Active Directory Lightweight Domain Services, Active Directory Domain Services or Active Directory Snapshot instance.
Domain name values:
Fully qualified domain name
Examples: corp.contoso.com
NetBIOS name
Example: CORP
Directory server values:
Fully qualified directory server name
Example: corp-DC12.corp.contoso.com
NetBIOS name
Example: corp-DC12
Fully qualified directory server name and port
Example: corp-DC12.corp.contoso.com:3268
The default value for the Server parameter is determined by one of the following methods in the order that they are listed:
-By using Server value from objects passed through the pipeline.
-By using the server information associated with the Active Directory PowerShell provider drive, when running under that drive.
-By using the domain of the computer running Windows PowerShell.
The following example shows how to specify a full qualified domain name as the parameter value.
-Server "corp.contoso.com"
| Type: | String |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | False |
| Accept pipeline input: | False |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
Inputs
An account object that represents the user, computer or service account is received by the Identity parameter. Derived types, such as the following are also accepted:
Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADUser
Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADComputer
Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADServiceAccount
Outputs
Returns group objects that represent the security groups for the account.
Notes
- This cmdlet does not work with an Active Directory Snapshot.
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