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Question

Please guide me on how to add the descrption to the result of the PowerShell command

Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity studentsblockexternal@alkauthar.academy | ft displayname, primarySMTPaddress, description

Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity <DLIdentity> | ft displayname, primarySMTPaddress

Also I want to know the total of members for this group if possible.

Answer 1

Hi IT,

I recommend you use AD cmdlets after you get user membership of the group:

$groupName = "YourDistributionGroupName"

Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity $groupName | ForEach-Object {
    $user = Get-ADUser -Identity $_.SamAccountName -Properties DisplayName, EmailAddress
    [PSCustomObject]@{
        DisplayName = $user.DisplayName
        PrimarySMTPAddress = $user.EmailAddress
    }
}

Let me know if this working for you.

Cheers,

Luis Arias

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Answer 2

I don't have an Exchange server to work with, so I've altered your question to work with AD objects.

$x=Get-ADGroupMember -Identity groupx 
    ForEach-Object {
        if ($_.objectclass -eq 'user'){
            $_|Get-ADUser -Properties displayname,mail,description
        }
    } 
$x | ft displayname, mail, description
"There are $($x.count) members of this group"

If there are other members of the group that are not users (e.g., a contact or other groups) you can remove the "if" statement or substitute one of your own.