Ldifde output for users in a global group

So a Admin Assistant sent me a email and the user wanted to get a list of users from a particular group on a easy to read format. It seems you can't copy the users within the global group with AD users and computers. You can do it with Hyena but no use of installing that on a end user.

So I looked around for a script and found this on MS site for creating a user list with ldifde and a vbs script to clean it up.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555937

1. Write the batch file that runs LDIFDE against your Active Directory. Save the file as ExportDL.BAT using a text editor like Notepad. If you’re using Notepad, make sure that the file extension is .bat and not .bat.txt when you save the file.

@echo off
ldifde -f groups.ldf -d "cn=GroupName1,ou=myOU, dc=mydomain,dc=com" -l member -s mydc1
cscript modify.vbs //Nologo > "GroupName1.txt"
ldifde -f groups.ldf -d "cn=GroupName2,ou=myOU,dc=mydomain,dc=com" -l member -s mydc1
cscript modify.vbs //Nologo > "GroupName2.txt"
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ldifde -f groups.ldf -d "cn=GroupNameN,ou=myOU,dc=mydomain,dc=com" -l member -s mydc1
cscript modify.vbs //Nologo > "GroupNameN.txt"

Here the two lines starting with LDIFDE and CSCRIPT are repeated for each distribution group in the active directory. The example shows how to write the script for distribution groups named GroupName1, GroupName2 and GroupNameN, where they represent the display name of the individual distribution groups in Active Directory. In this example, all the distribution groups are placed in the OU named myOU. If your distribution groups are scattered in separate OUs, take care to give the complete LDAP path in the –d switch. Also, in this example, it is assumed that the Active Directory domain name as mydomain.com (represented by dc=mydomain,dc=com in this code snippet) and the domain controller as mydc1. You will need to change these parameters in your script to reflect actual values.

The function of each iteration in the batch file is to extract (using LDIFDE) each distribution group into an LDIF file named groups.ldf. The groups.ldf file is a temporary file. The next statement (cscript modify.vbs) invokes the modify.vbs script (described below). The modify.vbs script works on the groups.ldf file to produce meaningful output.

2. Write the MODIFY.VBS file. Again, you can use Notepad. You may not need to make any changes to the below code. This file opens the groups.ldf file created by LDIFDE in the batch file you created in step 1. It then extracts only the display names of each member of the group and places it into a new text file. The text file containing the group members is created automatically and is given the name of the distribution group from which the users were extracted. If the file already exists, it is overwritten automatically every time you run the script.

Dim objFileSystem, objInputFile
Dim strOutputFile, inputData, strData, strTemp

Const OPEN_FILE_FOR_READING = 1

' generate a filename base on the script name
strOutputFile = "groups.ldf"
Set objFileSystem = CreateObject("Scripting.fileSystemObject")
Set objInputFile = objFileSystem.OpenTextFile(strOutputFile, OPEN_FILE_FOR_READING)

' read everything in an array
inputData = Split(objInputFile.ReadAll, vbNewline)
For each strData In inputData
   if Mid(strData, 1,2)="me" and len(strdata)>10  then
       strTemp=Mid(strData, 12, InStr(1, strData,",",1)-12)
       WScript.Echo strTemp
   end if 
   if Mid(strData,1,2)=" C" then
       strTemp=Mid(strData, 5, InStr(1, strData,",",1)-5)
       WScript.Echo strTemp 
   end if
Next
objInputFile.Close
Set objFileSystem = Nothing
WScript.Quit(0)

3. Run the ExportDL.bat file. Once execution completes, see the folder where you put the above two files. You should see that you have new text files with the names all your distribution groups.

The script worked great until the ldifde created a white space on one of the lines for a user this line had to be edited to correct the issue.

 if Mid(strData,1,3)=" CN" then

Thanks to Jake Baker for helping me out with this.

I'm just a kiddie scripter so I appreciate the help bud.