How to get the Active Directory groups membership for user with Powershell Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership

Question: How can I get the Active Directory groups for a specific user using Powershell? I'm facing a problem where a user is getting a failed login to a SQL Server. This SQL Server has multiple Active Directory groups attached to it - but I don't have visibility to the members of the groups. 

I know I can use the Get-ADGroupMember powershell cmdlet , which would give the member list of a specified Active Directory group, but this would be time - consuming . 

Is there a Powershell based method to specify the domain user and return the list of active directory groups which they are a member of ?

Answer: There is powershell cmdlet to the rescue! Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership

The Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership cmdlet will return the group membership of the specified user , in the current domain  of the logon executing this cmdlet 

Example 1 : Return group membership of the specified user

Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership 'MYID1' | select name

Example 2 : Return group membership of the specified user , but this time run the scan of another trusted domain . Note : using the -server switch 

Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership 'MYID1' -server 'domanin2.net'| select name

For some extra information on using  Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership on another trusted domain read     Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership other domain

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