Extracting user group membership to a spreadsheet - tip?

Question

Hello,
This is a tip that works for me.
Sometimes I need to extract the Group Membership names for a user or users.
What I do is have PTSpy running when I find their name from an administrative search. Clicking on the user name opens up the EDIT USER page where you can see the users groups.
At this point look in PTSpy for the line:
Create query: '/* QUERY_DYNAMIC_USERGROUPS:ANSI */ SELECT DISTINCT(a.ObjectID), a.Name, a.IsLocalized      FROM PTUSERGROUPS a, PTUSERLINKS b      WHERE a.ObjectID=b.GroupID           AND b.UserID=?           AND (b.ISSTATIC=? AND b.ISDYNAMIC=?) ORDER BY a.ObjectID DESC'
followed by 3 lines:
setInt, index: 0, value: 0001. <--user ID
setInt, index: 0, value: 1. <--Static Group Membership
setInt, index: 0, value: 0. <--Dynamic
Copy and drop that into SQL Query Analyser, plug in the value provided and save it to a spreadsheet or just copy and paste it.
If you want find dynamic groups - there is a similar query in the PTspy log - look for the /*QUERY_DYNAMIC_USERGROUPS:ANSI
in PTSpy log
If anyone has anything else to add - please do!
Thanks,
V
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. ~Joseph Campbell

Answer 1

Hi,
To identify members of a local group by using a command line, refer to:
1. Open Command Prompt.
2. To list members of a group, type: net localgroup "groupname"
Note: You must include the quotation marks.
For example, export the members of the local group Administrators to a text file named group.txt, refer to:
net localgroup “Administrators” > C:\group.txt
You can also write a script as you want.
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Thanks this does seem to work. It does seem that just copying the command does not work because of the quotes, and that you have to manually type the quotation marks into the command prompt, I'm thinking they are picked up as a different character when you
copy paste from a html page or other document.