What am I doing wrong with this powershell script?

Question

Get Members Of Information from AD

$name = Read-Host -Prompt "Please enter your name"
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership $name | select name

Get Members Of Information for a Group from AD

$groupmemberof = Read-Host -Prompt "Please enter the group name
Get-ADGroup -Filter 'CN -like "$groupmemberof"'-Properties MemberOf | Select-Object -ExpandProperty MemberOf

I cannot get the 'CN -like to use the variable I put in in the beginning of the script in the prompt

Answer 1

The quoting used in the filter string is wrong:

Get-ADGroup -Filter "CN -like '$groupmemberof'"-Properties MemberOf |  
    Select-Object -ExpandProperty MemberOf  

If you surround the string with single-quotes you prevent the interpolation of the variable $groupname. Instead, use double-quotes around the whole string and single-quotes around the variable.

Answer 2

Have you tried using Get-ADGroupMember?

get-adgroupmember