Export a list of members from an Active Directory group to a text file

January 6, 2012 20 Comments

I needed to export a list of all the members in an active directory group today. Here are two methods which work well. The first example uses the net group command. In both examples ‘Group Name’ is the name of the group that you want to export the member list for, and memberlist.txt is the name of the output file.

net group “Group Name” /domain > memberlist.txt

The second example uses dsquery and dsget, which will return the full distinguished names of the user objects that are members of the group. This could be useful if you also need to know which organizational unit the members accounts reside in.

dsquery group -name “Group Name” | dsget group -members > memberlist.txt

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Force KCC (Knowledge Consistency Checker) to run on a domain controller

January 5, 2012 Leave a comment

Sometimes after demoting domain controllers you may be left with inconsistent NTDS connection objects in Active directory. In my case there was an NTDS connection object listed under one of the domain controllers at our central site which referenced a recently demoted domain controller at a remote site. I needed an NTDS connection object pointing pointing to the newly installed DC at the remote site instead. To fix this i simply deleted the incorrect NTDS connection object in the ‘Sites and Services’ console, from the central site domain controller, and then forced KCC to run on the same domain controller by running:

repadmin /kcc

This forces the domain controller that you run the command on to check its inbound replication topology immediately and generate any missing connections. After running this command a new NTDS connection object was generated from the new DC at the remote site. This can either be verified by checking under the Domain Controllers NTDS Settings, in the ‘Sites and Services’ Console or by running:

repadmin /showrepl

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