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Save a List of All Members in All Distribution Lists

One of our managers has asked for a list of all distribution lists, and the members of each one.  I'm barely familiar with Powershell, so this is definitely beyond my abilities.  Can anyone help me out?
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Oh and....

DoSomething | Export-CSV "somefile.csv"

Is probably your best shot for writing it out to a file neatly.

Chris
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Sorry for the delay in responding.

I've created a script (see snippet below) that does a pretty good initial job.  However, there's two problems... first, the start of the generated CSV file doesn't make sense to me:

===========================================================
#TYPE System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject
Name
"Joe Hartegu"
"Rob Flanes"
"Beth Forhill"
DistributionList-A
"Roger Sykes"
===========================================================


Basically, it's listing a bunch of users before it shows me anything about the first distribution list.  The second (smaller) problem is that there's no space between the last member in a DL and the next DL's name.  Is there a way to add a newline/breakspace or two above each distribution list's name, just to help visually distinguish?
Get-DistributionGroup | %{
  Write-Host $_.Name
  Write-Output $(Get-DistributionGroupMember $_.DistinguishedName | Select-Object Name)
} | Export-CSV "somefile.csv"

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Sure, lets see if we can't make it pretty :)

What would you like to see in there? Just names? or Names and Distinguished Names? Or Descriptions or Job Titles? etc etc

Chris
UPDATE:  I found a blog that explained how to do it ( http://gnawgnu.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html ).  Thank you for setting me on the right path... searching for information about Get-DistributionGroupMember was what let me to it.

Not bad :) I just dropped that method because didn't like the flexibility. I'll finish off mine and you can have a play with it if you like, or just carry on with that if it does what you need :)

Chris