Get-ADUserMembership --- Retrieves friendly group names of a given AD user

Import-Module ActiveDirectory            
            
Function Get-ADUserMembership {            
<#

.SYNOPSIS
    Retrieves friendly group names of a given AD user.
.DESCRIPTION
    It retrieves the group membership of the user AND helps in scenarios where you just need the group names without distinguished name to send the output as input to other functions or scripts.
.PARAMETER name
    Name of the Active Directory user to query
.NOTES
    Name: Get-ADUserMembership
    Author: Santhosh Durgam
    Email : santhosh.durgam@hotmail.com
    DateCreated: 8th August 2019

.EXAMPLE
    Get-ADUserMembership -User "sccmadmin"

Description

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It returns the friendly names of the groups to which the queried user belongs to.
#>              
    [cmdletbinding()]            
    param(            
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, position = 0)]            
    [string]$User            
    )            
            
    begin             
        {            
            Write-Verbose "Querying group membership for the user $User"            
        }            
    process            
        {                     
            $ADUserExists = Get-ADUser -Identity $User -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue            
            if($ADUserExists)            
                {            
                    Get-ADUser -Identity $User -property memberof | Select-Object -ExpandProperty memberof | ForEach-Object {($_.split(",")[0]).split("=")[1]}            
                }                            
            else            
                {            
                    Write-host "User $User is not found in AD"            
                }            
        }            
    end            
        {            
                        
        }            
}