Powershell - get details about members of ad group

Question

hi, i want to perform this task:
Get a list with name, samaccountname and department for all members of an ad-group. I have been trying with different ways, but still no complete success. Need def more powershell skills. Anybody who can guide me in the right direction here? Thanks
in advance.

Answer 1

Here's an alternative method which can be used as a workaround if you run into issues with large groups (5000+ users).
(Get-ADGroup "groupname" -properties members).members | Get-ADUser -properties Department |
Select-Object SamAccountName, Name, Enabled, Department | Export-CSV ".\USERS005.csv" -noType
Enabled is a default property for Get-ADUser so you don't need to specifically include this in the properties.  (Department is not, so you do need to include this).
Due to performance reasons, commands do not return all the properties of a object.
For example.  Get-ADUser returns the following properties by default.
DistinguishedName
Enabled
GivenName
Name
ObjectClass
ObjectGUID
SamAccountName
SID
Surname
UserPrincipalName
If you want to know the default properties for a given command, you can expand the propertynames.
For example :-
Get-ADUser 'user' | select -expand propertynames
or
(Get-ADUser 'User').propertynames