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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook
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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

by Mike Pfeiffer
July 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Reporting on distribution group membership

One of the common requests you are likely to receive as an Exchange administrator is to generate a report detailing which recipients are members of one or more distribution groups. In this recipe, we'll take a look at how to retrieve this information from the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it...

To view a list of each distribution group member interactively, use the following code:

foreach($i in Get-DistributionGroup -ResultSize Unlimited) {
  Get-DistributionGroupMember $i -ResultSize Unlimited | 
    Select-Object @{n="Member";e={$_.Name}},
      RecipientType,
      @{n="Group";e={$i.Name}}
}

This will generate a list of Exchange recipients and their associated distribution group membership.

How it works...

This code ...

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