Tuesday, May 11, 2010

How to Dump/Export GAL to CSV file.

This is one of the most common request comes time to time, although there are many ways to accomplish the task I will show you one of the easiest one.

Log into one of your management server , Csvde.exe is a Microsoft Windows 2000 command-line utility, so open CMD prompted. Copy and paste below…..

CSVDE -f GalDump.csv -r objectCategory=person -l "displayName, title, telephoneNumber, department, mail"

 

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All you need to do it to open the CSV file called GalDump.csv , the fiel will be on the same directory as you ran the command.

If you want everything use this one

CSVDE -f GalDumpAll.csv -r objectCategory=person

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Tips

If you look at the first column you will figured out the attribute names and you can use this to modify the first CSVDE to fit to your needs

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3 comments:

sbq said...

CSVDE has a bug where it will mangle data when dumping out a large number of items, I've come up with a powershell script that does a much better job using ADSI:

$date = get-date -format yyyyMMdd
$fname = "userDump-$date.csv"
#creates a variable named $root that binds to the ADSI path in quotes
$root = [ADSI]"LDAP://DC=domain,DC=com"
# variable with the sub OU's that we will search on since I want to skip certain OU's in the domain
$DN = "OU=some,OU=OU", "OU=someother,OU=OU", "CN=Users"

$DN2 = $DN | foreach {
$root.PSBase.Children.find($_)
}

filter Format-DumpADUser {
$_ | select @{name='distinguishedName';Expression={$_.distinguishedName} },
@{ name='homeMDB'; Expression={$_.homeMDB} },
@{ name='displayName'; Expression={$_.displayName} },
@{ name='mail'; Expression={$_.mail} },
@{ name='employeeID'; Expression={$_.employeeID} },
@{ name='legacyExchangeDN'; Expression={$_.legacyExchangeDN} },
@{ name='proxyAddresses'; Expression={$_.proxyAddresses} },
@{ name='memberOf'; Expression={$_.memberOf} },
@{ name='sAMAccountName'; Expression={$_.sAMAccountName} },
@{ name='whenChanged'; Expression={$_.whenChanged} },
@{ name='whenCreated'; Expression={$_.whenCreated} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute1'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute1} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute2'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute2} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute3'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute3} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute4'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute4} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute5'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute5} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute6'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute6} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute7'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute7} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute8'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute8} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute9'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute9} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute10'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute10} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute11'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute11} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute12'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute12} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute13'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute13} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute14'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute14} },
@{ name='extensionAttribute15'; Expression={$_.extensionAttribute15} },
@{ name='mailNickname'; Expression={$_.mailNickname} },
@{ name='mDBUseDefaults'; Expression={$_.mDBUseDefaults} },
@{ name='mDBOverQuotaLimit'; Expression={$_.mDBOverQuotaLimit} },
@{ name='mDBStorageQuota'; Expression={$_.mDBStorageQuota} }
}

$DN2 | foreach {
$_.PSBase.Children
} | Format-DumpADUser | export-csv -NoTypeInformation E:\Directory-Dumps\Archive\$fname

Oz Casey, Dedeal said...

Nice thanks for providing PS, which is always welcome, the CSVDE I used recently was able to export little over 250K GAL into CSV with no time and issues by the way (-:

I liked it because it is so simple and short (-:

thanks again for the PS
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Anonymous said...

Great post!

You can also export using Outlook or GUI Exchange admin tools:

http://www.sysadmit.com/2016/03/exchange-exportar-lista-global-de-direcciones.html