Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

1-1: Enumerate a User's (or Computer's) Group Memberships

Solution overview

Type of solution	Tool (Script)
Features and tools	Command-line commands, VBScript
Solution summary	Create a script to enumerate a user's (or computer's) group memberships.
Benefits	Answers the question, "What groups does ____ belong to?" Makes group memberships more visible than what is possible using the standard GUI toolset.
Preview	Figure 1-5 illustrates the output of a script that reports the group memberships of a user.

Figure 1-5. Group membership report script

Introduction

Our first solution exemplifies a common approach to problem solving in this book. We start with a problem ...