Question

Export Active Directory Group Membership to a text file

Asked by: stefanjoc

I have found a script here on Experts-Exchange which was kindly posted by BlueDevilFan.

I have made some very minor changes to it, but what I want it to do is prompt the user to enter the Domain and Group fields via a prompt input box.

the fields are

strDomain
strGroup

Can anyone help me out.  I have given it 500 points because it is quite urgent.

'Script begins here
Dim objGroup, objUser, objFSO, objFile, strDomain, strGroup, Domain, Group
'Change DomainName to the name of the domain the group is in
strDomain = "Domain"
'Change GroupName to the name of the group whose members you want to export
strGroup = "Group"
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'On the next line change the name and path of the file that export data will be written to.
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("C:\stefan\final" & strGroup & " - Members.txt")
Set objGroup = GetObject("WinNT://" & strDomain & "/" & strGroup & ",group")
For Each objUser In objGroup.Members
    objFile.WriteLine objUser.Name & " - " & objUser.Class
Next
objFile.Close
Set objFile = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing
Set objUser = Nothing
Set objGroup = Nothing
Wscript.Echo "Done"
Wscript.Echo "Please check your destination folder for the output file"

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Asked On
2005-11-01 at 02:45:33ID21614887
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members

Topic

Windows NT Networking

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Answers

 

by: sirbountyPosted on 2005-11-01 at 03:53:03ID: 15199281

change
strDomain = "Domain"
to read
strDomain = Inputbox ("Enter the Domain name", "Data needed", "Default domain name")

and
strGroup = "Group"
to
strGroup = InputBox ("Enter the Group name", "Data needed", "Default group name")

 

by: stefanjocPosted on 2005-11-01 at 05:47:47ID: 15199853

Thanks for that sirbounty.  Did just the job.  Was frustrating me that one.  I know it was probably an easy one but I did need the answer quite quickly.

Thanks again

 

by: sirbountyPosted on 2005-11-01 at 06:12:43ID: 15200048

Happy to have helped! :^)

 

by: lasteinkPosted on 2008-01-02 at 18:03:08ID: 20569844

Solution Worked Great for me too!  Thank you!

***Modified to have include fix and a more common output path****

'Script begins here
Dim objGroup, objUser, objFSO, objFile, strDomain, strGroup, Domain, Group
'Change DomainName to the name of the domain the group is in
strDomain = Inputbox ("Enter the Domain name", "Data needed", "Default domain name")
'Change GroupName to the name of the group whose members you want to export
strGroup = InputBox ("Enter the Group name", "Data needed", "Default group name")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'On the next line change the name and path of the file that export data will be written to.
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("C:\" & strGroup & " - Members.txt")
Set objGroup = GetObject("WinNT://" & strDomain & "/" & strGroup & ",group")
For Each objUser In objGroup.Members
    objFile.WriteLine objUser.Name & " - " & objUser.Class
Next
objFile.Close
Set objFile = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing
Set objUser = Nothing
Set objGroup = Nothing
Wscript.Echo "Done"
Wscript.Echo "Please check the c: for your output file"

                                              
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by: btreePosted on 2008-01-05 at 06:21:53ID: 20589127

This is an excellent script.  Short sweet and to the point!

 

by: TrustedBordersPosted on 2008-06-25 at 03:24:57ID: 21864123

Brilliant script. Did just what it said on the tin and saved a shed load of time and frustration.

Note: You can easily change/add 'objUser.Name' to 'objUser.FullName' if you want to see the user's name rather than the logon id.

 

by: buihleinPosted on 2008-08-06 at 08:38:59ID: 22171452

this is awesome!!!!! Worked like a Charm!

 

by: choswootPosted on 2008-08-19 at 10:33:36ID: 22261947

Yep!! AWESOME, THANX!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

by: transpenninePosted on 2009-03-17 at 05:09:40ID: 23906972

Fantasic just what I was looking for saved me hours of messing about!
thanks very much

 

by: finamaPosted on 2009-04-27 at 08:27:59ID: 24242747

Just have to put the text into a vbs file and it's done !

Really nice, thank you !

 

by: garryshapePosted on 2009-08-19 at 09:33:42ID: 25134576

great script, worked easily. i really like the idea of GUI and prompting for information.

 

by: TRHMCPosted on 2009-08-21 at 08:21:30ID: 25152748

Awesome!!  Saved me a bunch of work!  Thank you for providing this to everyone!!

 

by: NtHawk101Posted on 2009-12-07 at 08:21:59ID: 25990158

This was sweet! One thing I'd like to see changed if possible:
Can it be modified to list groups and then members within each group within a given OU?

 

by: MMoorePosted on 2010-03-03 at 12:23:15ID: 27296645

it is indeed a wonderful piece of script.

I tried to slightly modify it to report the user's email address instead of the user name.

I could not get it to work


Can anyone with experience please check ???

I tried everything you can think of in line 11.

Instead of

    objFile.WriteLine objUser.Name

I tried

    objFile.WriteLine objUser.MailAddr
or
   objFile.WriteLine objUser.Email
or
   objFile.WriteLine objUser.EmailAddress
or
   objFile.WriteLine objUser.Mail

Nothing worked!!!

Can anybody help ?

 

by: e5charliePosted on 2010-06-09 at 11:34:42ID: 32955124

Sweet.  Works like a charm.

 

by: nvsupportPosted on 2011-04-12 at 10:24:19ID: 35377054

Very nice script but was wanting to know if there is a way to use wild cards so it exports all groups at once.

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