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Active Directory time based group membership and LDAP_MATCHING_RULE_IN_CHAIN bug – Update 27.04.23

Microsoft introduced a new feature back in 2016 called „time based group membership“ . Since then it is possible to add groupmembership with an expiration date. There are plenty of examples on how to add a ttl to a groupmembership. I will only explain the basic mechanism on how to determine if a membership is time based or not. After adding a time based membership you can check the groupmemberships with powershell by adding a ShowMemberTimeToLive parameter like this: (Get-ADGroup -LDAPFilter „(CN=ROL-TEST-DIFEO)“ -Properties member -ShowMemberTimeToLive).member The Result of the member field is mixed with normal memberships and time based memberships. Time based memberships have the distinguishedname in the members field with an TTL prefix and look like this <TTL=xxx>,cn=difeo,ou=users… while xxx is time in seconds that this object remains in this group. These seconds count down to 0. After this, the object isnt member of this group anymore. For flexibility we put groups into groups to summarize permissions to roles and not to persons. So it usual that a user has 3 groupmemberships with tons of groups with additional permissions. We cascade groups only one level to keep complexity under contol. So my user difeo is in a group calles…