Powershell - AD permissions all users

Dashrender

really appreciated the help @dafyre. unfortunately 3rd party tools are a no no, already asked that question and been shot down :(.

Why, because of costs?
There are several tools out there that are free or shareware.

dafyre

@pally -- The tool I linked to above is free if cost is the concern.

pally

Not really cost related, think they want me to go through all these issues cus they hate me lol.

think I may have explained it incorrectly ...sorry

this script needs to only show what permissions every user has, but the permissions need to be outputted in a easy filter way. having all the same Group memberships in the same like the example. when someone filters for Group1 all group1 appears in one column.

sorry I explained it wrong. hope this makes better sense.

DustinB3403

@pally said:

Not really cost related, think they want me to go through all these issues cus they hate me lol.

think I may have explained it incorrectly ...sorry

this script needs to only show what permissions every user has, but the permissions need to be outputted in a easy filter way. having all the same Group memberships in the same like the example. when someone filters for Group1 all group1 appears in one column.

sorry I explained it wrong. hope this makes better sense.

OK Pally.

Let me stop you there.

Use the "Text To Columns" functions in excel my script here generates the data so you can sort it out into individual columns. You filter for all users who are in File Group 1.
No reason to try and come up with a way to do this via PowerShell. Excel is perfectly suited for this.

pally

@DustinB3403 the script works fine, I have separated using excel, but the groups do not match up. I have Group 1 in cell 5 and I have the same Group in cell 23 so the filter does not see that. its very hard to explain, some people have more groups and some have less, the output cannot match them to be in the same column.

DustinB3403

OK So you want the Groups sorted alphabetically?

DustinB3403

Or you need a header with each group name, and who's in that group under it?

pally

alphabetically would be ideal, but group headers would work too.

DustinB3403

So rather than the 5 header columns that are in the existing report of Username, Email Address, DistinguishedName, Enabled and Groups.

You want as many columns as you have permission groups, and the member users under each.

Is that correct?

pally

correct, the user, and all the groups they are a member of in alphabetical order, so they line up with the same groups for the next user if this is the case, if not it would leave a blank space so we can filter only with the same group.

I swear there must be an easier way to explain this lol

again thank you

dafyre

@pally said:

correct, the user, and all the groups they are a member of in alphabetical order, so they line up with the same groups for the next user if this is the case, if not it would leave a blank space so we can filter only with the same group.

I swear there must be an easier way to explain this lol

again thank you

You could actually write an example up in Excel of what you want the report to look like.

DustinB3403

He's attempting to sort it so all group members are in the same column of excel.

This isn't possible since not every member has the same permissions.

IE

User1 might have Share_Bananas_RW and Share_Beans_RW

But User2 only has Share_Bananas_RW

And User3 has Share_Beans_RW and Share_Apples_RO

Well in the Excel document, that's trying to sort by data that isn't there. It can't be done, to have all of the Share_Bananas_RW groups in column E for example.

Well Share_Apples_RO will always be in Column E (or whatever is open first) and everything else will be further down the sheet.

DustinB3403

Below you'll find a hand crafted version of what he's looking for.

UserName	         OU	            Enabled	     Groups	                                        Groups	                          Groups
ELAS Support	    ELAS	        TRUE	     AnyConnect Remote Access	Remote Desktop Users	
QTS Support	        QTS	            TRUE	     AnyConnect Remote Access	Remote Desktop Users	
Roshan Azeez	    NetCrowd	    TRUE	    AnyConnect Remote Access	Remote Desktop Users

The above is an example of a hand crafted version.

But if ELAS Support has Administrators in it, AnyConnect Remote Access wouldn't be the first group.

it would instead be

UserName	         OU	            Enabled	     Groups	                                        Groups	                          Groups
ELAS Support	    ELAS	        TRUE	    Administrators                                 AnyConnect Remote Access	Remote Desktop Users	
QTS Support	        QTS	            TRUE	                                                               AnyConnect Remote Access	Remote Desktop Users	
Roshan Azeez	    NetCrowd	    TRUE	                                                               AnyConnect Remote Access	Remote Desktop Users

Dashrender

Sounds like something like this would suit him

This would be very involved though. You'd need to enumerate every group for each user, creating an x or o based upon if they are or are not a member.

then you could short this by username and see what they are and aren't members of.

Good luck.

pally

Thanks @DustinB3403 that is exactly what I am trying to do, if anyone @DustinB3403 has tried and said it cannot be done, if it can be done and someone can shed some light I would be very grateful.

Thanks

Dashrender

Is this what you want?

pally

@Dashrender that is exactly what I need. is it possible to do?

Dashrender

Adding the Administrator group to a new user would change it to look like this

pally

that would be ideal, if this is possible please let me know how @Dashrender

Dashrender

@pally said:

@Dashrender that is exactly what I need. is it possible to do?

Sure, it's possible, don't ask me how I'm not a scripter, but I do understand the basic logic now.

you create a loop that reads in the first user, then looks a list of known groups and sees if it's a member or not, if not, you leave a blank (for the cell) and the close marker for that cell, then check against the next group.

So you end up with two nested loops, the outer loop is going through all users, the inner loop goes through all groups.