WEBVTT 00:05.970 --> 00:13.480 One working on large or complex environments performing bulk operations is the key to efficiency use 00:13.480 --> 00:20.710 and power schelde core common glass such as gut content which you have already mentioned and importances 00:20.760 --> 00:21.480 feet. 00:21.630 --> 00:29.850 We can easily import external data into the shell and to use this information to perform Baul corporations 00:29.910 --> 00:34.730 on hundreds or thousands of objects in a matter of seconds. 00:34.890 --> 00:43.880 Obviously we can want to speed up the time spent on routine tasks and greatly increase our efficiency. 00:44.070 --> 00:52.590 And this video will use these concepts to add members to distribution groups in bulk from a text or 00:52.820 --> 01:02.130 a file using the Exchange management shell to start off let's create a text file called users dot text 01:02.180 --> 01:06.240 me I'll create it on a C drive root. 01:06.330 --> 01:13.140 This file will list the recipients in your organization that you want to add to a group. 01:13.200 --> 01:17.160 Make sure you answer them one line at a time. 01:17.160 --> 01:24.390 Next up we have to run the following code to add the list of recipients to a distribution group real 01:24.410 --> 01:24.800 time. 01:24.810 --> 01:26.170 Get content. 01:26.190 --> 01:28.400 The path to our file. 01:28.470 --> 01:30.980 In my case it's siecle backslash. 01:31.120 --> 01:40.500 Users don't text and pipe the results to for each object command left and as a result each object which 01:40.500 --> 01:50.490 is contained in our file will be added to sales distribution group with the ADD distribution group member 01:50.490 --> 01:51.490 command left. 01:51.630 --> 01:59.640 When the code runs each user loose to tell the users that txt file will be added to the sales distribution 01:59.640 --> 02:06.870 group when important data from a plain text file we use to get content command left which will read 02:06.870 --> 02:11.520 the content of the file into the shell one line at a time. 02:11.520 --> 02:18.750 In this example we pipe the content of the file to the foreach object command left and as each line 02:18.750 --> 02:27.690 is processed we run the ADD distribution group command let inside the foreach object script block. 02:27.800 --> 02:35.970 We're there at distribution group member command left and to sign the dollar sign on the bar or object 02:36.150 --> 02:42.100 which is the current recipient item in the pipeline to the member parameter. 02:42.240 --> 02:49.170 Please know that to remove recipients from a distribution group you can use the remove distribution 02:49.170 --> 02:50.880 group member command lead. 02:50.970 --> 02:58.500 Now keep in mind that this text file does not have to contain the S.M. to be address of the recipient. 02:58.500 --> 03:06.780 You can also use the active directory called Name use or principal name distinguished name Greta or 03:07.020 --> 03:08.790 legacy change. 03:08.810 --> 03:13.910 DN Well here's the important thing that the file contains. 03:13.920 --> 03:17.520 Well it and to unique Well your foreach recipient. 03:17.660 --> 03:25.810 If the identity of the recipient cannot be determined the distribution group member command will fail. 03:25.950 --> 03:34.740 In addition to use an plain text files we can also import recipients from a CSP file and add them to 03:34.740 --> 03:36.300 a distribution group. 03:36.420 --> 03:44.910 Let's say that you have a CSP file set up with multiple columns such as first name last name and email 03:44.910 --> 03:45.620 address. 03:45.720 --> 03:52.580 When you import this history file the data can be accessed using the goal and headers of the property 03:52.660 --> 03:54.290 names for each object. 03:54.330 --> 03:58.860 In this case we have to use imports since the command left. 03:58.860 --> 04:05.480 So when you do each item in the collection of an email address like in my file. 04:05.490 --> 04:12.450 Users don't see this field as long as this information corresponds to the recipient data in the exchange 04:12.450 --> 04:13.550 organization. 04:13.560 --> 04:21.360 We can simply loop through each record to see as we file and add this recipients to a distribution group. 04:21.360 --> 04:29.610 Take a look at this code we are using an import says siecle on backslash users Dud's seriously and pipe 04:29.610 --> 04:39.120 it to for each object we use add distribution group mamber we are adding each object to sales distribution 04:39.120 --> 04:45.990 group and sorting out all this information by email address calling.