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Extract members from a distributiongroup and export their properties to a file.
Is it possible to extract members from a distributiongroup to a txt or xls file with all the user's properties?
If one group have 10 members, I would like to see their names, telephone numbers, email addresses, company etc.
Is there a tool that can solve this or maybe a script?
Windows 2003 server sp2 and Exchange 2003 sp2
If one group have 10 members, I would like to see their names, telephone numbers, email addresses, company etc.
Is there a tool that can solve this or maybe a script?
Windows 2003 server sp2 and Exchange 2003 sp2
Brian Pierce
see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555937
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Yes I have seen that but if I understand it right by running this you will get the members but not the properties belonging to each member. What I want is to extract all members from certain distributiongroups and also get their full name, telephone number, address, email address etc.
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Ok, I don't have the possibility to try that now but I will try Adfind on Monday to see if it is the solution I'm looking for. If it is - all the 500 points to you - LauraEHunterMVP.
You can use windows builtin tools like DSQuery and DSGet to extract such info (just in two statements)
Like:
Click Start -> Run -> Cmd.exe
DSQuery Group -Name "GroupName" -Limit 0|DSGet Group -Members >GroupMembers.txt
^---- Group Name Here
* Above statement will extract user's DN from Group and write it to 'GroupMembers.txt' file
FOR /F "delims=*" %u IN ('TYPE GroupMembers.txt') DO (DSQuery * %u -Attr Name telephoneNumber streetAddress l st postalCode co -L >>UsersInfo.txt &ECHO.>>UsersInfo.txt)
* Above loop will fetch user DN from GroupMembers.txt file and provide it to DSQuery for getting attributes value.
** This is just for your information, I have nothing to do with points. All points goes to LauraEHunterMVP
Like:
Click Start -> Run -> Cmd.exe
DSQuery Group -Name "GroupName" -Limit 0|DSGet Group -Members >GroupMembers.txt
^---- Group Name Here
* Above statement will extract user's DN from Group and write it to 'GroupMembers.txt' file
FOR /F "delims=*" %u IN ('TYPE GroupMembers.txt') DO (DSQuery * %u -Attr Name telephoneNumber streetAddress l st postalCode co -L >>UsersInfo.txt &ECHO.>>UsersInfo.txt)
* Above loop will fetch user DN from GroupMembers.txt file and provide it to DSQuery for getting attributes value.
** This is just for your information, I have nothing to do with points. All points goes to LauraEHunterMVP
Yep, accomplishes the same result - the attribute-scoped query simply takes those multiple separate steps and smooshes them into a single operation.
ASKER
Hi Laura, this is exactly what I needed. I would like to do one more thing though, I need this information to a file - csv would be nice. Do you know if it possible?
Yep. Add the -csv switch and a " > blah.csv" pipe at the end.
ASKER
ThankYou! Now I'm satisfied!
In powershell you could use this in the EMC PowerShell Console with ActiveDirectoy module imported:
Get-DistributionGroup "YOURDL-IN-QUOTES" | Get-DistributionGroupMembe
after the FT you can specify the attributes you are looking for:
Get-DistributionGroup "YOURDL-IN-QUOTES" | Get-DistributionGroupMembe
now if you want it in CSV you need to change the command since export-csv doesn't play will with FT (in my experience)
Get-DistributionGroup "YOURDL-IN-QUOTES" | Get-DistributionGroupMembe
Get-DistributionGroup "YOURDL-IN-QUOTES" | Get-DistributionGroupMembe
after the FT you can specify the attributes you are looking for:
Get-DistributionGroup "YOURDL-IN-QUOTES" | Get-DistributionGroupMembe
now if you want it in CSV you need to change the command since export-csv doesn't play will with FT (in my experience)
Get-DistributionGroup "YOURDL-IN-QUOTES" | Get-DistributionGroupMembe