XADM: How to Print Out Members of a DL from Exchange

Summary

This article shows you how to print out the members of a distribution list (DL) from Microsoft Exchange Server.

To print out the members of a DL:

In the Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator program, go to the Recipients container where the distribution list resides.
View the properties of the distribution list by either double-clicking on the list or clicking the list and clicking Properties on the File menu.
On the General tab of the property page, click Modify.
Select all of the list's users to highlight them, and press CTRL-C to copy the members to the clipboard.
Open a Notepad document and press CTRL-V to paste the members. Save the document as c:\Dlist.txt
Open the document in Microsoft Excel by clicking Open on the File menu, and point to the c:\Dlist.txt file.
In the Text Import Wizard, click Delimited, then click Next.
From the Delimiters box, click Semicolon only, and click Finish.

The contents of the Dlist.txt file are now in Excel. The following steps will line up names in a single column and print the list.
In Microsoft Excel, select the entire list of names to highlight it, and press CTRL- C.
Open a blank Excel document, highlight cell A-1, and on the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
Click Transpose, then click OK.
On the File menu, click Print to print the list.

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