Dsquery nested groups

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How would I write a dsquery to get a list of all the members of a d-list, expanding any nested groups to get the members of those groups?

I've written this:

dsquery * -filter "(&(memberOf=cn=...))" -r -limit 0 -attr 
CUSTOMFIELD sAMAccountName displayName > export.txt

but returns nested d-lists and I want to expand these.

I then tried this:

dsquery group -samid "NAME | dsget group -members -expand > export.txt

But this just lists the OU of each member and I want to get the Account Name and a custom field returned.

Is there any way, either of chosing which fields to return from dsget or to epxand dsquery to show nested group membership?

Thanks.

Best Answer

See "dsget group /?" for an example.

dsget group "CN=DL1,OU=Whatever,DC=Domain,DC=Com" -members -expand

The above should work. But it will spit nested DL names along with members of them.

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How to list Distribution Group (List) and their members inside of an OU using AD or exchange 2010

It's not very pretty, but this PowerShell should do it,

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

"{0},{1}" -f  "Group Name", "Member" | out-file outfile.csv
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$group = Get-ADGroup $_.Name
foreach ($member in Get-ADGroupMember $group)
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      }
}

Update the SearchBase with the path to your target OU and away it should go.

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