SharePoint 2013 - How to query members/users of an Active Directory group?

Question

I have written some JavaScript code to get all groups and their users with permissions to a SharePoint list. Beside SharePoint groups there are also AD groups with permissions. The Problem is, that I can't query the users of AD groups. Afaik there is no solution to do this with JavaScript. What is the best method to get the users of an AD Group? Do I need some Kind of web Service? I need to get the AD Group users to my JavaScript code.

Sorry for my broken English and thank you for your help.

Answer 1

Using JSOM you can find out whether the user is a domain user or not.

But there is no JSOM method available to expand a domain group and find the users. If you want to stick with JavaScript then you should create a web service, that can give you the information.

Deploy the web service under SharePoint context and use AJAX for getting the data.