How to get Active Directory Group Scope - Local Domain, Global Group, Universal Group with Powershell

Question : How can I find the Active Directory Group group scope -  Local Domain, Global Group, Universal Group with Powershell? 

Answer: Powershell  has a range of cmdlets to access and read the Active Directory . One of the Powershell cmdlets is Get-ADGroup - which retrieves a group or groups from Active Directory. 

This is an example of returning all the columns for all AD groups on a specific server , where the string "DBA Team" is part of the AD group name 

    Get-ADGroup -Filter "name -like '*DBA Team*'" -Properties * -server "myADserver.net" | select *

As part of the resultset - there is a column called "Group Scope" . This "GroupScope" column returns the values required - Local Domain, Global Group, Universal Group.

To return only the relevant columns i.e name and group scope  use something similar to the below

    Get-ADGroup -Filter "name -like '*DBA Team*'" -Properties * -server "myADserver.net" | select name,groupscope

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