How to get all the AD groups for a particular user?

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You should use System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement. It’s much easier. Here is a nice code project article giving you an overview on all the classes in this DLL.

As you pointed out, your current approach doesn’t find out the primary group. Actually, it’s much worse than you thought. There are some more cases that it doesn’t work, like the domain local group from another domain. You can check here for details. Here is how the code looks like if you switch to use System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement. The following code can find the immediate groups this user assigned to, which includes the primary group.

UserPrincipal user = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(new PrincipalContext (ContextType.Domain, "mydomain.com"), IdentityType.SamAccountName, "username");
foreach (GroupPrincipal group in user.GetGroups())
{
    Console.Out.WriteLine(group);
}

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