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Background: AD Users & Computers UI lets you list the mail column for each object, which displays the default (SMTP) email address for objects. You can export the list from ADUC as csv/txt. However, any additional email addresses in the proxyAddresses attribute are not exported.
There's no GUI to list/export all email addresses. Here's a script to do that - ListEmailAddresses.vbs.
What does it exactly do?
- Queries Active Directory for Contacts & Groups
- Lists their email addresses
- Queries Users
- Lists enabled users' email addresses
- Lists disabled users' email addresses separately (was required for a certain project I did a long time back)
- Outputs to command line and also to a text file - c:\proxyaddresses.txt
- X.400 addresses are ignored
Updates:
08/07/2007: Download link updated to correct URL.
There's no GUI to list/export all email addresses. Here's a script to do that - ListEmailAddresses.vbs.
File: ListEmailAddresses.zip
What does it exactly do?
- Queries Active Directory for Contacts & Groups
- Lists their email addresses
- Queries Users
- Lists enabled users' email addresses
- Lists disabled users' email addresses separately (was required for a certain project I did a long time back)
- Outputs to command line and also to a text file - c:\proxyaddresses.txt
- X.400 addresses are ignored
Updates:
08/07/2007: Download link updated to correct URL.
Labels: AD/LDAP, Administration, Mailbox, Scripts, SMTP
105 Comments:
This program looks really great, I only have two questions and before i ask I would like to thank you for your hard work and thank you again very much for your time and help, I do indeed appreciate it VERY MUCH. Ok, having said that here are my questions.
1) IS ther a way to pipe the output to text? I do not seem to have figured out the correct way, I always get a 0 byte file with my standard filename.vbs > filename.txt procedure. 2) Is there a way to modify it so I get all smtp address? I seem to only get the Proxy addresses which are usually secondary, also is there a way to get help with the program? a /? did not do that for me -
Again I appreciate your time and help in this,
Seth Roth
I agree with Seth - thanks so much for your hard work.
I also would like the exact same info as Seth.
Thanks!
the program dump information
'Output to a text file
Set objFileSystem = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objOutputFile = objFileSystem.CreateTextFile("C:\proxyaddresses.txt")
objOutputFile.Write strResult
C:\proxyaddresses.txt look there
sorry for the dumb question, but how do i run the ListEmailAddresses.vbs script? Thanks for the help or you can email me at oksetter@hotmail.com
Run it from a command prompt. If cscript is not your default script host (and no harm done even if it is):
cscript scriptname.vbs
The script will generate a txt file in the root folder of your c:\ drive - c:\proxyaddresses.txt - as noted in one of the previous comments as well.
Bharat
awesome..thanks so much. Saved me a call to Microsoft techsupport on how to output all SMTP addresses to a txt file.
I am facing one problem that how I can get the internal email (through exchange server) address from my outlook.for example I got the email and I just want to figure out only "From" (received email)
exchange server used x400 protocol and I can not get only sender email address..if anyone has idea about it then please do send me piese of code.
I am facing one problem that how I can get the internal email (through exchange server) address from my outlook.for example I got the email and I just want to figure out only "From" (received email)
exchange server used x400 protocol and I can not get only sender email address..if anyone has idea about it then please do send me piese of code.
I am facing one problem that how I can get the internal email (through exchange server) address from my outlook.for example I got the email and I just want to figure out only "From" (received email)
exchange server used x400 protocol and I can not get only sender email address..if anyone has idea about it then please do send me piese of code.
Would someone please send me the code to homeroarg@datafull.com ?!?
The links seems to be dead....
Excellent script, thanks a ton.
Great script thanks a lot.
do you know how we can also generate emails for public folders?
thanks again
Al
Thanks so much! This script is a life saver.
first Thank you for the script.
I wanna know how can i change it, so that list me the smpt emails to a file and also from just one specific organization unit.
Regards
I recieve an error when running this script;
Line 54 char 13. What could be the problem.
Ernie Nazario
enaz@spiritone.com
een@klarquist.com
I also get an error (54, 13) when running the script. Any ideas?
Hello,
Any idea when it only produces results for 1000 records?
Richard
Any idea why it only produces 1000 records?
You can increase the "page size" - this is the number of records ADSI returns from an AD search - by adding the following code before objcommand.execute:
objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 2000
(Set it to number of records you want to return...).
I will modify the script soon to move through "pages" without having to set a pagesize for different environments.
Just a note of thanks for a very useful tool...
My first and only cscript attempt failed with the following error, any ideas?
C:\TEMP>cscript ListEmailAddresses.vbs
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.
C:\TEMP\ListEmailAddresses.vbs(54, 13) (null): 0x80005000
Perfect script! It's a life saver.
Thanks,
Doesnt work same error about line 54, 13 Null
Error list.vbs: (54, 13) (null): 0x80005000
When you look at line 54 it reads:
strUserDN = objRecordSet.Fields("distinguishedName")
You have to enter your "distinguishedName" for the script to work.
Now how to get it?
It's fairly simple, Let's assume your domain is called "example.local", and the container with employees is called "Employees"
The distinguishedName in this case wil be "OU=Employees,DC=EXAMPLE,DC=LOCAL"
If you want to get the name for a subfolder "Employees->Accounting" your name would change to "OU=Accounting,OU=Employees,DC=EXAMPLE,DC=LOCAL"
Moreover, you can uncomment the fllowing lines (by removing ')
wscript.Echo strADPath
wscript.echo "objDomain: " & objDomain.distinguishedName
to dissplay variables you're looking for.
You can also get the distinguishedName of a given object from ADSIEdit.msc.
Bharat
Great script !!
any way to make it show the names for the public folders ?? (unicode enables too )
Thanks !!
Would need to add a loop for (objectClass=publicFolder). In addition to Public Folders, Query-Based Distribution Groups need to be added as well, if I remember correctly.
Both are on my list of things to do - perhaps this week.
Bharat
Great !!
looking forward for it :)
I have tried running this script many times and it won't work for me. I have run it against different Exchange servers in fourdifferent domains. The first two clients it works fine without modifying the file. The other two it errors out stating line 100 is the problem. I have tried to modify the script for the two problem domains, but I can only get it to grab a couple addresses. There are well over 500 addresses in each of those domains. The only pattern I see is that the two clients that this worked for had Exchange servers named "Mail" and one of those two servers is also a DC. The other two clients have Exchange Servers named something like "ABCemail" neither being a DC. I have tried modifying the script for with the names of those servers, but it either works partially or not at all. PLEASE HELP!!!
The script queries Active Directory, so the names of Exchange servers aren't really an issue here.
I have recieved the following error msg:
ListEmailAddresses.vbs(100, 13) (null): 0x80005000
Please advise.
Hi Bharat Suneja,
Your script looks very nice could you please tell me where I need to change the "distinguishedName" I have tried to change on line 54 but I receive this error:
C:\ListEmailAddresses.vbs(52, 13) ADODB.Recordset: Item cannot be found in the collection
corresponding to the requested name or ordinal.
Any help much appreciated,
Slr
Is it possible to repost the downloadable file as it appears not to be available any longer.
Thanks,
Matthew
Matthew,
Thanks for pointing out - download link corrected.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Your a super star for the script :)
Hi,
I get a script error when running it.
I get the screen with the results and al that stuff but after closing it I get the following error (in WSH): Line 167
Char: 1
Error: ActiveX component can't create object: 'Scripting.FileSystemObject'
Code: 800A01AD
Srouce: Microsoft VBScripting runtime error
After that I ofcourse do not get the txt file.
I tried it using Exchange 2003
Can anybody help me to correct the problem?
I also get the error: ADODB.Recordset: Item cannot be found in the collection
corresponding to the requested name or ordinal.
Great script. Did you ever manage to get it to do Public Folders?
Perfect. Does exactly what I wanted. Saves me a lot of time on a regulkar basis. Cheers! Karl
I get the same error message as others.
ListEmailAddresses.vbs(53, 13) ADODB.Recordset: Item cannot be found in the collection corresponding to the requested name or ordinal.
I have the correct distinguishedName for my domain in the script.
hi, great script !!!
Just one question, the final text file en encoded ANSI and I need it RTF. Any idea how can I change the encoding of the file via the script ?
Thanks , Very great Script.
One question.
can you include the email addresses in public folders?
Thanks for the script, it works. Saved me some time collecting this information.
Regards,
Juan.
Thanks SO much! This is excellent.
This script worked great. Thank you very much. Is there a way to edit it so that it will do just the opposite and located all accounts in AD that do not have the email filled in?
Right now our company is using a mix of Novel and Windows. Because we use GroupWise as the primary email service, Exchange is not being used. We have several user accounts in AD that never had the email address field filled out because we use Novel. We need to run the script to capture those blank accounts and populate them later with their Novel GW email.
Thank so much.
cdseawell@carilion.com
Is there a way to get the script to only output SMTP addresses, and create a file output file that is simply:
email
email
email
With no other formating or text.
Very nice list script, thank you.
Steve
Hello
I am trying to get the email address of an OU. It's showing the error below.
(54, 13) ADODB.Recordset: Item cannot be found in the
ollection corresponding to the requested name.
Please advise
Thanks Buddy,
Worked perfectly.
Jono.
THANK YOU!
Hi All,
I have an exchange question, but is unrelated to this specific topic. I was wondering if anyone here could assist or suggest a good place where I could get some assistance.
A friend of mine has a Small Business Server 2003 machine that he was using for several years for his business. He has since closed the business and set aside his machine. Now he needs to get his emails from his account off his old server.
How can he export his old emails from the database on the exchange server 2003 to something (I guess a .pst file), that he can import into his current outlook program, which seems to only have some of his latest emails, and not all of them from the previous set of years. As far as I know since the company was fairly small, there was never any archived and removed emails., They should all be there.
Thank you in advance for your consideration and support.
I can be reached at KShapiro-at-Bigfoot-dot-com. (Obviously replace the "-at-" with "@", and "-dot-" with "."
Sincerely,
Kevin Shapiro
Thank you, very helpful :)
Dood.. You rock, you just saved me hours worth of work. Much appreciated.
I also get the (54, 13) (null): 0x80005000 error.
This is from running the script as is without changing any of the contents.
I know what my distinguished name is. Do I have to change the code in some way by physically inserting the distinguished name somewhere so it wull run?
Any help to get this running so I can impress my boss greatly appreciated!
Thanks for the script, but I'm getting the error: C:\ListEmailAddresses.vbs(52, 13) ADODB.Recordset: Item cannot be found in the collection
corresponding to the requested name or ordinal.
I've adjusted / entered my distinguishedName.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Tom
I've got the same message
Item cannot be found in the collection
corresponding to the requested name or ordinal.
Please help
What needs modified in this script to allow it to capture this data? I am new to scripting...
PERFECT!
Shows the primary smtp address and all other smtp addresses (aliases) in the domain on a per user basis
Thanks a lot!
(for above, usage:
- Unzip and enter this in command prompt:
cscript C:\ListEmailAddresses\ListEmailAddresses.vbs > c:\bla.txt)
This script is great, particularly usefull if you need to set up mail archiving solutions on a well established domain. Many thanks, Carlton, UK
Thanks a tonne. You've really helped me out. :-)
Hi,
Great script, but I too am getting this error:
"error: ADODB.Recordset: Item cannot be found in the collection
corresponding to the requested name or ordinal."
The path in AD I wish to output is:
nonprofit.lib.mo.us > Microsoft Exchange Security Groups > Employee Exchange group
I have modded the "distinguishedname" as follows:
strUserDN = objRecordSet.Fields("OU=Employee Exchange group,OU=Microsoft Exchange Security Groups,DC=NONPROFIT,DC=LIB,DC=MO,DC=US") 'Get User's distinguished name from Recordset into a string
set objUser= GetObject("LDAP://"& strUserDN & "")
What have I done wrong?
Thanks
Wonderful script, thank you very much. Appreciate it.
Thank, works great !
This script worked great for most server. I noticed that if I had an OU called the same as the domain I got ListEmailAddresses.vbs(100, 13) (null): 0x80005000 error.
Just did not get it to work on that OU.
How's it going with also listing the e-mail addresses of the Public Folders? :)
@Anonymous: Haven't had the time to pick up the Public Folders part yet...
I'm scratching my head as I think about VBScript again (given how easy this is using Exchange shell/Powershell in Exchange 2007)... :)
Brilliant idea, wonderful script. MS should learn from you.
Thanks
Excellent tool, ran on test environment (few users) worked perfectly. But on production where I have alot more users i get the ListEmailAddresses.vbs(55, 13) (null): 0x80005000, even with the following objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 5000
any advice what i need to do ?
Awesome, thanks for this script it has saved me from a big headache, and hours of tedious work.
---Feels like Home---
Great script! Works like a charm.
Thanks for sharing
To fix the (null): 0x80005000 error, you have to insert the following line in 2 places:
strUserDN = Replace(strUserDN, "/", "\/")
You have to add it after line 53 and the other line that says: strUserDN = objRecordSet.Fields("distinguishedName")
You have to do this because some domains (like mine) have global groups with the / characters in them and that will cause the query to fail.
Check out this article for the explaination:
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=775481
Enjoy
Thanks so much! Saved me hours.
I'm sorry, I'm still back with Stewart on 4/7/2008.
Are we supposed to edit the script to define our specific
"distinguishedName"? And if so, where and how?
@Another David: The script picks up your AD path by querying AD for RootDSE. You generally don't need to edit anything to run it.
See Serverless Binding and RootDSE for more info.
Thanks you very much... great script. I also modified it to
pull all public folders proxy address....
bravo! thx for sharing this tool, it fixed all my headache!
This works perfectly. I wonder why there is no such function accessible via GUI in Exchange Server. Thanks a lot!
thank you very much!!!!!!!!
I've been using cygwin with adfind for a while now, and it's easy to come up with commands to assist with AD management.
To get all the email addresses from a domain:
adfind -default -f "(objectcategory=user)" mail | grep @ | sed -e 's/>mail: //g' | sort
You could also output the results to a file.
There probably is an easier way with adfind to do that, but this has worked for me.
Adfind is a great tool.
But for the same funcionality of vbscript, try this:
adfind -default -f "(objectcategory=user)" proxyAddresses | grep @ | sed -e 's/>mail: //g' | sort
Great script worked a treat! many thanks
Hi,
Really like the script. thanks!!!
But how do I add the user's loginname to this???
Kind regards,
M
Brilliant.
Thanks very much.
Hello,
Exchange 2007 :
Is there a way to show E-mail adresses (SMTP / proxy )in all public folders, even Hidden ?
And where I can find the Folder.
No Succes with : Get-MailPublicFolder | select Name,EmailAddresses
Thanks,
Great script thanks a lot.
Sweet, thanks for sharing this script!
For marketing purposes I'd like to crawl through the exchange server and get all *external* email addresses that our local users are sending / reciving from. If I had those in a CSV, I could write a vba routine to weed out the valid marketing contact. How do I do this?
@Michael: This info can be found in message tracking logs.
gr8 script ..... thanks much for your time and supports..keep going guys... realyy doing great help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
really great script! you helped me a lot.
Thought you should know, your script is still coming in very handy. Thank you. It worked beautifully.
-- Campbell
@Campbell: Thanks! This was one of my favorites when I wrote it a few years ago.
well, never work for me
Thanks a bunch, it still works perfectly
Jan
Great script. Ran perfectly first time. Great output. Thanks for putting this out there.
Excellent script, thank you for your efforts!
Excellent - thanks for the script - I kept getting error messages too until I edited the script as the anonymous poster noted on 12-3-08 9:21P
to insert the line strUserDN=Replace(strUserDN,"/","\/") after line 53 and the other line that says strUserDN=objRecordSet.Fields ("distinguishedName")
Then your script worked like a charm.
It took me the better part of a day to figure out after reading all these posts and trying a bunch of stuff - I'm not a scripting expert so it probably took me a little longer than the average scripter
Thanks again
Thanks for the script. It works great. The only problem I had was the same Line 54 char 13 I see other people having... and the ADODB.Recordset error.
I inserted the string strUserDN = Replace(struserDN,"/","\/") after line 53 and after the line that says strUserDN=objRecordSet.Fields("distinguishedName")
Thanks for the script. It took me a little longer to diagnose and fix the errors than the average scripter - because I am not as experienced with scripting.
Thanks for the script.
It's a great script, thanks.
I made a slight modification to include public folders also.
Modify line 38 near this part:
(objectClass=contact)(objectClass=group)
Change it to look like this:
(objectClass=contact)(objectClass=group)(objectClass=publicfolder)
It works on Windows2008/Exchange2007...
Cheers
@Battman: Thanks for the update!
Perfect, just perfect. Look for the text file in C:
Great work. You have saved me a lot of time and effort
U da man!!!
Thanks for the info! This is what I needed!
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