Find Distribution Groups in Active Directory.

This can be done using powershell very easily -

Get-DistributionGroup | Get-DistributionGroupMember | Export-CSV C:\data.csv

above command will give you the DL list in a csv file and then you can apply filters as required. (It needs to be executed from an exchange shell)

or you may want to try this -

http://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/1388-export-distribution-list-members

Sometime back I created following batch script for similar purpose, hope it works for you.
Save this script with any name having .cmd extention and execute with a number parameter.

Like: GroupWithMembers.cmd 10

@ECHO OFF
IF "%1" LEQ "0" ECHO Invalid parameter.&&GOTO :End
 
IF EXIST _Output.txt DEL _Output.txt
FOR /F "delims=" %%g IN ('DSQuery * -Filter "(&(ObjectClass=Group)(groupType=2))" -Limit 0') DO (
	ECHO Quering: %%g
	DSGET Group %%g -members >TmpMbrs.txt
	FOR /F %%c IN ('TYPE TmpMbrs.txt ^|FIND "=" /C') DO (
	IF %%c GTR %1 ECHO Group: %%g Members: %%c >>_Output.txt))

ECHO.&ECHO Script finished.
IF EXIST _Output.txt (
	START "" Notepad.exe _Output.txt) ELSE ( 
	ECHO No group with more than %1 members found.)
:End

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This is close to what I need.
The only problem is that I have around 700 DLs, but this only queries 5 of them.
None of them are in the same OU.
How can I make sure it queries all OUs?

Copy and paste following statement on command line and see if it is listing all your distribution groups?

DSQuery * -Filter "(&(ObjectClass=Group)(groupType=2))" -Limit 0

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No, it still just lists the same 5 DLs.

With this?

DSQuery * ForestRoot -Filter "(&(ObjectClass=Group)(groupType=2))" -Limit 0

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Do you need the members or just list that meet the > 20 mark?

That gives me a bunch more, but from other domains in the forest.
It still only returns the same 5 from my domain.
I thought maybe it might be a problem on my workstation, but I get the same results from one of the DCs.
For the heck of it, I tried DomainRoot as well, but that only gave me the same 5 DLs as the first command.

yo_bee

All I need is the name of the group, and the count of members.
If not the count, just that it has more members than 20.

farhankazi

It looks like it is working; it was still running when I left the office.
I'll check it in the morning and get back to you.

Thanks

yo_bee
Yours gives a clean output, but it wouldn't work in Powershell. I changed the command to work with Quest management shell.

farhankazi
Your solution provides me with the information I need, I just need to work with the output to make it more readable.

Thanks to both of you for your help.

You need to run it from a computer that has ADDS Cmdlet installed
If you run it from your DC does it work?