Display or Export the Members of Exchange Distribution Groups

The members of Distribution Groups can be viewed and modified through the Outlook Address Book. However, Outlook doesn’t offer a way to export a list of all the members.

Administrators can run the following Exchange Management Shell commands to display/export the memberlist, sorted by DisplayName.

Single Distribution Group

• Display Memberlist
  Get-DistributionGroupMember {Name of Group} | Sort -Property DisplayName | Select DisplayName, Alias, Department

• Export Memberlist to TXT file
  Get-DistributionGroupMember {Name of Group} | Sort -Property DisplayName | Select DisplayName, Alias, Department > C:DGmemberlist.txt

• Export Memberlist to CSV file
  Get-DistributionGroupMember {Name of Group} | Sort -Property DisplayName | Select DisplayName, Alias, Department | Export-CSV C:DGmemberlist.csv

All Distribution Groups in the Exchange Organization

• Display Memberlist (create a script file called something like C:scriptsGet-DGmembers.ps1, paste below commands into it, and run the file in the Exchange Management Shell)
  get-distributiongroup | Sort -Property DisplayName | foreach {
  $name = $_.displayname
  $output = ‘Group Name: ‘ + $Name
  write-output $output
  Get-DistributionGroupMember $name | Sort -Property DisplayName | Select DisplayName, Alias, Department
  write-output “” “”
  }

• Export Memberlist to TXT file (create a script file called something like C:scriptsExport-DGmembers.ps1, paste below commands into it, and run the file in the Exchange Management Shell)
  write-output “” > C:outputDGmembers.txt
  get-distributiongroup | Sort -Property DisplayName | foreach {
  $name = $_.displayname
  $output = ‘Group Name: ‘ + $Name
  write-output $output >> C:outputDGmembers.txt
  Get-DistributionGroupMember $name | Sort -Property DisplayName | Select DisplayName, Alias, Department >> C:outputDGmembers.txt
  write-output “” “” >> C:outputDGmembers.txt
  }