Exporting Group Membership from AD

Sometimes you may find yourself in a situation where you have to export the members of a security group from AD.

In such a situation we can use following commands : (On a server were AD tools - remote Administration tools are installed)

dsquery group -name “Group Name” | dsget group -members > users.csv

However this will give results with the respective LDAP paths

e.g CN=Server01,OU=V,OU=Servers,OU=Computers,OU=Loc,DC=domain,DC=com

You might have only wanted to get the name not the netire path.

Just open the csv file you exported and (Press Ctrl + H ) i.e Find and Replace these 1 by 1

Use Replace All option , the image is shown here:

OU=*

CN=

,

Additionally you may also use the following command:

net group “Group Name” /domain > users.csv

Again you have to do some formatting of the results.

Hope this helps.

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