Vista Tutorial - Trying to get nested users from Distribution Lists in AD

I am new to Powershell, but have been a Perl dev for many years. So,
I'm familiar with what you can do with a script... I just don't know
how to do it in Powershell. =)

I've been tasked with providing a list of users that are part of the
given distribution list. Here are my constraints:

1. This needs to be with Powershell as it's installed - no additional
cmdlets (so I can't use Get-QADGroupMember)
2. I don't know how many DLs will be nested.

I've tried searching around online, but everyone is using the cmdlet
mentioned above, or the Exchange cmdlets. Since I don't have access
to either, can this be done?

Thanks!

--Lareth

2000 or 2003?

If it is 2000 then your going to have to do the nested check yourself. If
2003 you can probably use ASQ.

General Good Doc for Searches
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window...6ded41033.mspx

Also, I have a blog series on LDAP filters
http://bsonposh.com/archives/tag/LDAP-Filter
and
http://bsonposh.com/archives/tag/LDAP

<kirgan.peacock@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:78328b70-d483-4f19-a312-e3f67075f5d5@xxxxxx

Try this too:

http://posh.jaykul.com/p/1156



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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

We have 2003. Thank you - this returns all the nested users! I
appreciate it very much! =)

--Kirgan

If your at Win2k3 SP2, A more efficient way is to use the LDAP_MATCHING_RULE_IN_CHAIN
defined here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa746475.aspx

$dn = "<groupdn>"
$filter = "(memberof:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=$dn)"
$ds = new-object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher([ADSI]"",$filter)
$ds.PageSize = 1000
$ds.FindAll()

Brandon Shell
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Blog: http://www.bsonposh.com/
PSH Scripts Project: www.codeplex.com/psobject

K> We have 2003. Thank you - this returns all the nested users! I
K> appreciate it very much! =)
K>
K> --Kirgan
K>