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How to import email addresses from a distribution group to CSV

Hi

We use exchange 2007 and outlook 2010.We have two distribution list Staff and Students in exchange server.
Staff distribution contains 100 users and students distribution group contains 600 users.

I want to import both the staff and students names and mail addresses into a csv.
Is there a way of importing these email addresses .Please post me step by step tutorials.

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lianne143

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Thanks becraig

Do I need to copy and run this command from exchange power shell replacing <group> with staff to get all the staff name and email address?

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lianne143

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I tried entering the command and I am getting the following error.

EnabledPrimarySMTPAddressTemplate "@contoso.com"

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-DistributionGroupMember #Staff Team | sort Nam
e | % {

cmdlet Get-DistributionGroupMember at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
Identity: If ($_.RecipientType -eq "UserMailbox")
Get-DistributionGroupMember : The operation could not be performed because
object ' If ($_.RecipientType -eq "UserMailbox")' could not be found on
domain controller 'DC-001.domain.local'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-DistributionGroupMember #Staff Team | sort Name | % {
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Get-DistributionGroupMember],
ManagementObjectNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : FDF89F70,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Recipient
Tasks.GetDistributionGroupMember

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>{
>> $_.Name + " (" + $_.PrimarySMTPAddress + ")" | Out-File c:\Import\members.txt
-Append
>> }
>> }
>>

lianne143

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Please let me know if I am missing any thing

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lianne143

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I ran the following command and now I get the below.

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-DistributionGroup -Anr StaffTeam

Name DisplayName GroupType PrimarySmtpAddress
---- ----------- --------- ------------------
StaffTeam StaffTeam Universal, Secur... StaffTeam@C...

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>

lianne143

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Hi becraig
Please post me as how I go with next step
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lianne143

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I saved the script as address.ps1 on C: and ran this from powershell ,please see below.

PS C:\> .\address.ps1
Get-DistributionGroupMember : The term 'Get-DistributionGroupMember' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,
function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the
path is correct and try again.
At C:\address.ps1:1 char:1
+ Get-DistributionGroupMember StaffTeam | sort Name | % {
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Get-DistributionGroupMember:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

PS C:\>

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lianne143

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Hi becraig

Thank you soo much for all your post. It worked like a charm.

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