Active Directory User Group Membership <p>I am trying to get a users group membership and limiting the results to those that match a string, ie I am only interested in the users group membership where the group begins with "test-".</p> <p>The following is what I have been playing around with, even though the user is apart of several groups that match the search string, the If statement is not returning True on any of them.</p> <pre><code>Private Function GetGroups(ByVal userName As String) As Collection Dim Groups As New Collection Dim intCount As Integer Dim entry As DirectoryEntry = ADEntry() Dim mySearcher As DirectorySearcher = New DirectorySearcher(entry) Dim arrList As New ArrayList() ' Limit the search results to only users mySearcher.Filter = "(&amp;(ObjectClass=User)(CN=" &amp; userName &amp; "))" ' Set the sort order mySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("MemberOf") Dim searchResults As SearchResultCollection = mySearcher.FindAll() MessageBox.Show(searchResults.Count) If searchResults.Count &gt; 0 Then Dim group As New DirectoryEntry(searchResults(0).Path) For Each member As Object In group.Properties("MemberOf") MessageBox.Show("Pre: "+ member) 'This message box returns all the groups the user is apart of. If group.Properties("memberOf").Contains("test-") = True Then MessageBox.Show(member) ' This message box never shows End If Next End If Return Groups End Function </code></pre> <p>Is there any way of applying a search or If statement agains an Object where the constraint is a wildcard?</p> <p>The groups I am looking for could be one of about 60 (this amount does increase and decrease as staff leave).</p> <p>I am using VB.NET 2.0.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Matt</p>