How to get all groups that a user is a member of?

Question

PowerShell\'s Get-ADGroupMember cmdlet returns members of a specific group. Is there a cmdlet or property to get all the groups that a particular user is a member of?

Answer 1

I couldn't get the following to work for a particular user:

Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership username

It threw an error that I was not willing to troubleshoot.

I did however come up with a different solution using Get-ADUser. I like it a bit better because if you don't know the account name then you can get it based off of a wildcard on the user's actual name. Just fill in PartOfUsersName and away it goes.

#Get the groups that list of users are the member of using a wildcard search

[string]$UserNameLike = "*PartOfUsersName*" #Use * for wildcards here
[array]$AccountNames = $(Get-ADUser -Filter {Name -like $UserNameLike}).SamAccountName

ForEach ($AccountName In $AccountNames) {
Write-Host "`nGETTING GROUPS FOR" $AccountName.ToUpper() ":"
(Get-ADUser -Identity $AccountName -Properties MemberOf|select MemberOf).MemberOf|
    Get-ADGroup|select Name|sort name
    }

Huge props to schmeckendeugler and 8DH for getting me to this solution. +1 to both of you.