How to find Active Directory groups with Get-ADGroup search filter

Question: How can I find a list of AD groups with a specific search filter on the name column. ?   In this case I want to find all AD groups in the default OU group with a search string.

Answer: Assuming you are in the current Domain group \ OU group , find an example of Get-ADGroup which will filter on the search string "admin"

Get-ADGroup -Filter "name -like '*admin*'" -Properties * | select name

if you need to commit the Get_ADgroup search onto another server - than you'll need to use the -server switch

Get-ADGroup -Filter "name -like '*admin'" -Properties  -server "server2.net" | select name

The Get-ADGroup is part of other related AD-Group powershell cmdlets.

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