Private/Get-ALHADGroupMemberHT.ps1
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.VERSION 1.0.0 .GUID 8855ce9f-551a-44e2-a4e6-1c11c4e52c1d .AUTHOR Dieter Koch .COMPANYNAME .COPYRIGHT (c) 2021-2023 Dieter Koch .TAGS .LICENSEURI https://github.com/admins-little-helper/ALH/blob/main/LICENSE .PROJECTURI https://github.com/admins-little-helper/ALH .ICONURI .EXTERNALMODULEDEPENDENCIES .REQUIREDSCRIPTS .EXTERNALSCRIPTDEPENDENCIES .RELEASENOTES 1.0.0 Initial release #> <# .DESCRIPTION Contains a function to search for groups in Active Directory using System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher instead of the Active Directory PowerShell module. .LINK https://github.com/admins-little-helper/ALH #> Function Get-ALHADGroupMemberHT { <# .SYNOPSIS Searches Active Directory for groups and returns results in a hash table. .DESCRIPTION Searches Active Directory for groups and returns results in a hash table. This function uses System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher instead of the Active Directory PowerShell module. .PARAMETER SearchBase Name of the organizational unit to start searching recursively for groups. If not specified, the entire domain will be searched. .PARAMETER Identity Name of the group to search for. Wildcards supported. If not specified, * is used. .EXAMPLE Get-ALHADGroupMemberHT -SearchBase 'OU=Groups1,DC=contoso,DC=com','OU=Groups2,DC=contoso,DC=com' -Verbose Find all groups in two different organizational units and show verbose messages. .EXAMPLE Get-ALHADGroupMemberHT Find all groups in the domain. .EXAMPLE "OU=Groups,OU=Organization,DC=domain,DC=tld", "OU=Distribution Lists,OU=Organization,DC=domain,DC=tld" | Get-ALHADGroupMemberHT Pipe OU distinguished names to search in to function. .EXAMPLE Get-ALHADGroupMemberHT -Identity "group_*" Find all groups where name is staring with 'group_' in the entire domain. .INPUTS System.String for parameter 'SearchBase' .OUTPUTS System.DirectoryServices.SearchResult .NOTES Author: Dieter Koch Email: diko@admins-little-helper.de .LINK https://github.com/admins-little-helper/ALH/blob/main/Help/Get-ALHADGroupMemberHT.txt #> [CmdLetBinding()] [OutputType([System.DirectoryServices.SearchResult])] param ( [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline)] [String[]]$SearchBase, [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [String]$Identity = "*" ) begin { Write-Verbose -Message "Defining LDAP filter..." if ($Identity -ne "*") { $Filter = '(&(objectCategory=group)' + "(name=$Identity))" } else { $Filter = '(objectCategory=group)' } if ( [string]::IsNullOrEmpty($SearchBase)) { try { $Domain = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain]::GetCurrentDomain() Write-Verbose "Searching for groups in entire AD domain '$($Domain.Name)'" $SearchBase = ($Domain.GetDirectoryEntry()).DistinguishedName } catch { $_ break } } Write-Verbose -Message "Using LDAPFilter: $Filter" # Define re-usable script block for the AD search $RunSearch = { $Searcher = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher $Searcher.SearchRoot = $SearchRoot $Searcher.PageSize = 200 $Searcher.SearchScope = 'subtree' $Searcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add('distinguishedName') > $null $Searcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add('member') > $null $Searcher.Filter = $Filter $Searcher.FindAll() } } process { foreach ($OU in $SearchBase) { try { Write-Verbose "Searching for groups in OU '$OU'" $SearchRoot = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("LDAP://$OU") $Result = & $RunSearch Write-Verbose -Message "# Groups found: $($Result.Count)" $Result } catch { throw "Error searching OU '$OU': $_" } } } end { Write-Verbose -Message "Search finished" } } #region EndOfScript <# ################################################################################ ################################################################################ # # ______ _ __ _____ _ _ # | ____| | | / _| / ____| (_) | | # | |__ _ __ __| | ___ | |_ | (___ ___ _ __ _ _ __ | |_ # | __| | '_ \ / _` | / _ \| _| \___ \ / __| '__| | '_ \| __| # | |____| | | | (_| | | (_) | | ____) | (__| | | | |_) | |_ # |______|_| |_|\__,_| \___/|_| |_____/ \___|_| |_| .__/ \__| # | | # |_| ################################################################################ ################################################################################ # created with help of http://patorjk.com/software/taag/ #> #endregion |