Thursday, January 29, 2009

Query distibution groups and their members

Here is the script that will export all distribution groups in the file groups.txt and then will put these groups and their members in the file membership.txt:

dsquery * forestroot -filter "(samAccountType=268435457)" -limit 0 > groups.txt
for /f "tokens=*" %%g in (groups.txt) do @echo %%g >>membership.txt && echo Members: >>membership.txt && dsget group %%g -members -expand >>membership.txt && echo **************************************** >>membership.txt

If you want to do a query on security groups, or on distribution groups that have managers assigned and then list their members, please see my other posts from the Scripts categories called Distribution lists and managers and Security and distribution groups and easily modify the upper script.

Microsoft Web Platform Installer is now released

The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the Web Platform Installer’s user interface, you can choose to install either specific products or the entire Microsoft Web Platform onto your computer. The Web PI also helps keep your products up to date by always offering the latest additions to the Web Platform.
Supported Operating Systems are: Windows Vista RTM, Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008.
See here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx