{"id":2695,"date":"2013-10-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/10\/20\/powertip-find-members-of-critical-groups-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-10-20T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-members-of-critical-groups-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-members-of-critical-groups-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Members of Critical Groups with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to find the members of critical groups.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to track who is a member of my Domain Admins group?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use&nbsp;<strong>Get-ADGroupMember<\/strong>, and add as many groups as you want to the list by using the <br \/><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; SamAccountName <\/strong>for the groups:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">&#8220;Schema Admins&#8221;, &#8220;Domain Admins&#8221;, &#8220;Enterprise Admins&#8221; |<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">foreach {<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">&nbsp;$grpname = $_<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">&nbsp;Get-ADGroupMember -Identity $_ |<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">&nbsp;select @{N=&#8217;Group&#8217;; E={$grpname}}, Name<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">}&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the members of critical groups. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to track who is a member of my Domain Admins group? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-ADGroupMember, and add as many groups as you want to the list by using the &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; SamAccountName for the groups: &#8220;Schema Admins&#8221;, &#8220;Domain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,44,356,189,45],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-active-directory","tag-groups","tag-powertip","tag-richard-siddaway","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the members of critical groups. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to track who is a member of my Domain Admins group? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-ADGroupMember, and add as many groups as you want to the list by using the &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; SamAccountName for the groups: &#8220;Schema Admins&#8221;, &#8220;Domain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}