How many users in a distribution list

[Guest Israel]

I want to know how many users are there in a distribution list.

Please, can you tell me what can I do? I think I can use dsquery to know

this information, but I don't know how.

Is it possible with dsquery?

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Eduardo

[Guest Richard Mueller [MVP]]

Re: How many users in a distribution list

 

 

"Israel" <Israel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:745AA91C-800A-4B03-A74D-6CAB760E0E9C@microsoft.com...

>I want to know how many users are there in a distribution list.

> Please, can you tell me what can I do? I think I can use dsquery to know

> this information, but I don't know how.

> Is it possible with dsquery?

> Thanks in advance for your help.

>

> Eduardo

 

One possibility is to use the dsget command to retrieve the direct

membership of the group, then pipe the output to the find command, which can

count the number of lines. For example (one line at command prompt)"

 

dsget group "cn=TestGroup,ou=Sales,dc=MyDomain,dc=com" -members | find "cn="

/i /c

 

Otherwise, a VBScript program can use ADO to retrieve all direct members of

a group and output the count. The above is easier, but must be run on W2k3.

 

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