Problem
You want to get the owner of a security or distribution group.
Solution
To determine the owner of a group, use the [adsi] type shortcut to bind to the group in Active Directory, and then retrieve the ManagedBy property: $group = [adsi] "LDAP://localhost:389/cn=Management,ou=West,ou=Sales,dc=Fabrikam,dc=COM"
$group.ManagedBy
Discussion
The solution retrieves the owner of the Management group from the Sales West OU. To do this, it accesses the ManagedBy property of that group. This property exists only when populated by the administrator group, but it is a best practice to do so.
Unlike groups, some types of Active Directory objects don’t allow you to retrieve their properties by name this way. Instead, you must call the Get() method to retrieve specific properties:
PS >$group.Get("name") Management
