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Recurse DL Parents
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I am working on a project to add members to a series of distribution lists. These lists are nested into various parent lists, sometimes 2-3 layers deep. It's never been updated, but almost all these distribution groups are Mail-enabled Global Security groups. Powershell really, really wants to work with Universal groups. You can't just convert the current DL to Universal, it's parent needs to be Universal also.
The following function recurses a DL's parents and converts them all to Universal DLs using Quest's Set-QADGroup.
function Find-ParentDL ($dl) {
$MyDL = Get-QADGroup $dl
if ($myDL.memberof -ne $null -and $myDL.groupscope -eq "Global") {
foreach ($m in $myDL.Memberof) {
find-parentDL $m
}
}
if ($dl -ne "" -and $myDL.groupscope -eq "Global") {Set-qadgroup -GroupScope Universal -Identity $dl}
# If you want to return the DL structure.
# $arr = New-Object system.Object
# $arr | Add-Member -memberType NoteProperty -name Members -value $dl
# return $arr
}
#Call by running:
Find-Parent "Example All Users List"
$MyDL = Get-QADGroup $dl
if ($myDL.memberof -ne $null -and $myDL.groupscope -eq "Global") {
foreach ($m in $myDL.Memberof) {
find-parentDL $m
}
}
if ($dl -ne "" -and $myDL.groupscope -eq "Global") {Set-qadgroup -GroupScope Universal -Identity $dl}
# If you want to return the DL structure.
# $arr = New-Object system.Object
# $arr | Add-Member -memberType NoteProperty -name Members -value $dl
# return $arr
}
#Call by running:
Find-Parent "Example All Users List"
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