Hello we have a lot of AD groups which have members from 2 different domains within our forest. To get the member of a group I usually would use the command Get-ADGroupMember But if a group contains members from different domains you can not use this command, because you get a exeption error. T…

Thank you, that works fine… :slightly_smiling_face:

[image] AndreasHGW: the output is not only the members of the group, but together with the OU Actually it is the Distinguished Name you get. If you want to get the Common Name (CN) you may query the according AD for this attribute or you use string acrobatics. :wink: Given your example outpu…

[image] Olaf: (($DN -split ',OU')[0] -split '=')[1] I do not want the Distinguished Name itself as the result, but I want all members within the group. Means the output in my excample should be ynl,suupo

[image] AndreasHGW: I do not want the Distinguished Name itself as the result, but I want all members within the group. I know. You have to do this step for each individual member of a group … so you have to use a loop. :wink:

$MemberList = Get-ADGroup '<groupname>' -Properties Members | Select-Object -ExpandProperty members foreach ($Member in $MemberList) { (($Member -split ',OU')[0] -split '=')[1] }

Get-ADGroup <groupname -Properties Members

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AndreasHGW April 11, 2023, 2:43pm 5

OK, but how I get the CNs from that $DN string?

If I run your commands, I get as result the name of the group itself , OU.
In the output there is none of the members included.

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Get-ADGroup <groupname -Properties Members

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