How to Export Active Directory Group Members with Powershell Get-ADGroupMember

Question: How can I export Active Directory Group members? Also, if there are sub-groups , how can I get a list of members of AD group in Powershell? 

Answer:  To access the Active Directory through Powershell,  an efficient method  is to install the  Active Directory Module for Powershell .

The Get-ADGroupMember module gets the Active Directory Group members

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
Get-ADGroupMember -identity “Group name” | select name | Export-csv -path C:\ADGroupmembers.csv –NoTypeInformation

If there are nested groups , within the group you’re checking , then use the –recursive parameter.

The –recursive parameter will enable an iteration of all the nested groups  , reporting on the members. The nested group members are added to the result list

Get-ADGroupMember -identity “Group name” -recursive | select name | Export-csv -path C:\ADGroupmembers.csv –NoTypeInformation

The above commands will look for AD groups within the current domain . If the requirement is to check in another domain in the same AD forest than you'll need to use the -server switch 

Import-Module ActiveDirectory Get-ADGroupMember -identity “Group name” -server "another_domain"| select name | Export-csv -path C:\ADGroupmembers.csv –NoTypeInformation

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