Managing Exchange Groups PowerShell CMDlets
Get Distribution Group
Get-DistributionGroup -identity ‘[email protected]’ | fl
Get Distribution Group Members and export to a text file
Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity ‘[email protected]’ | ft name, primarysmtpaddress > c:\path\file.txt
Get Distribution Group information
Get-DistributionGroup -Identity ‘[email protected]’ | fl DisplayName, Alias, PrimarySmtpAddress, EmailAddresses, RecipientType, HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled, LastExchangeChangedTime, LegacyExchangeDN, WhenChanged, WhenCreated, WhenChangedUTC, WhenCreatedUTC, AcceptMessagesOnlyFrom, AcceptMessagesOnlyFromDLMembers, AcceptMessagesOnlyFromSendersOrMembers, CustomAttribute*
Add Group member when the group is secured
Add-DistributionGroupMember -identity “Group1″ -Member “User1″ -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck
Get-Distribution Group Members
Get-DistributionGroupMember -identity “Group1″
Use when troubleshooting Who has permissions to send to a group
Get-DistributionGroup -Identity ‘[email protected]’ | fl DisplayName,PrimarySmtpAddress, RecipientType, HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled, LastExchangeChangedTime, AcceptMessagesOnlyFrom, AcceptMessagesOnlyFromDLMembers, AcceptMessagesOnlyFromSendersOrMembers, CustomAttribute*
Find out if External Senders are allowed to send to Distribution Group
Get-DistributionGroup -Identity ‘[email protected]’ | ft name,primarysmtpaddress,require* -AutoSize
Find which groups require Sender Authentication
Get-DistributionGroup | where {$_.RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled -ne “true”} | sort-object -property Alias | Ft Alias,RequireSender
