Powershell Filter ADgroups the right way

Question

Hi im trying to Filter AD-Groups by a string i defined in a variable:

$groupname="string" Get-ADGroup -filter {GroupCategory -eq "security" -and Name -like ($sgroup_name+"*")}

How do i do this the right way?

Matt · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-28 02:43:53Z

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String expansion doesn't work well with the -Filter parameter when passing it a script block - use a string filter instead:

$groupname = "string" Get-ADGroup -Filter "GroupCategory -eq 'security' -and Name -like '${groupname}*'"

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I know you just copied what the op had but the code should work as intended now.