Hello, I'm fairely new to this forum and exchange/ad adminstration, but i wanted to know if there was a way to copy the membership attribute on AD for one user and apply it to another. Please advise the script or cmdlet i need to run

Hi, You can export DL members first then import it with new DL. 1: http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/archive/2008/07/03/Exporting-distribution-list-membership-to-Excel.aspx http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvradmin/thread/63ad55d1-1393-4533-8065-1d7cbd8657fa/ Import and create: http://www.powershellcommunity.org/Forums/tabid/54/aft/4721/Default.aspx Create a DG: new-distributiongroup -alias Contoso -name "Contoso People" -type distribution -organizationalunit "Mail distribution groups" -samaccountname Contoso Add Users to this DG from a OU: get-user -organizationalunit people | get-mailbox | %{ add-distributiongroupmember -identity Contoso -member $_} Anil MCC 2011,ITIL V3,MCSA 2003,MCTS 2010, My Blog : http://messagingschool.wordpress.com

I'm not looking to export all of the DL members. What I am trying to do is, John started in our company two weeks ago and would like to have the same security and distribution membership as Alex. Alex is a member of about 40 groups, so manually adding John to each group is a pain. Is there a way to copy Alex's membership and apply it to John?

At the time of provisioning yes, you'll need to copy Alex's account. After that, you'll need some VB Scripts to do the job. You could also try Quest's activeserveroles and other tools for powershell. They add a "memberof" command that can do half of what you're looking for http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx

Hi senai, Please save the below txt as a .ps1 file(e.g. c:\a.ps1) $user1 = [ADSI]LDAP://CN=from,OU=Test,DC=Contoso,DC=com $user2 = [ADSI]LDAP://CN=to,OU=Test,DC=Contoso,DC=com foreach ($group in $user1.memberof) { $group = [ADSI]LDAP://$group $DN = $user2.distinguishedName $group.Add(LDAP://$DN) } Navigate to C:\> in the EMS, after that, run the ps1 file. C:\>.\a.ps1 Frank Wang

Hi senai, Any updates? Frank Wang