Import/copy individual email addresses within global Distribution List Membership group to another?

[7777]

Hello, is there a way to bulk extract the individual email addresses from an
existing Distribution List Membership group and import/copy them into
another new slightly different group instead of having to go in manually
one-by-one when adding/assigning members in the 'Modify Members' section?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Russ Valentine]

R click and drag the DL to a new location. If you want it in the same
location, just rename it.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Yes. Is it an outlook DL or a GAL DL?

You can get a list of members by forwarding an Outlook DL as a vcard.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/dl/dl.asp

To get the gal list, add it to a message, expand it and copy the names.
Paste in a message, notepad, where ever and edit. Outlook will correctly
resolve the names.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/gal_to_dl/gal_to_dl.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

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How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

 

[7777]

Thanks all for the responses so far, much appreciated. But our new DL needs
each of their individual email addresses to start off with which as in time
individual members would then need to be added/removed so having the other
whole group DL in there won't give us granularity. I've also tried
copying/pasting and then expanding them but it just pastes their names and
not their individual email addresses which I need to put the bulk of these
into the new DL, so still researching this.

Yes. Is it an outlook DL or a GAL DL?

You can get a list of members by forwarding an Outlook DL as a vcard.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/dl/dl.asp

To get the gal list, add it to a message, expand it and copy the names.
Paste in a message, notepad, where ever and edit. Outlook will correctly
resolve the names.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/gal_to_dl/gal_to_dl.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Hello, is there a way to bulk extract the individual email addresses from
an existing Distribution List Membership group and import/copy them into
another new slightly different group instead of having to go in manually
one-by-one when adding/assigning members in the 'Modify Members' section?
Thanks in advance.

 

[7777]

Sorry Diane, I noticed your vcard link mentions Outlook 2007 as I have only
Outlook 2003. And ours looks to be a GAL DL.

Thanks all for the responses so far, much appreciated. But our new DL
needs each of their individual email addresses to start off with which as
in time individual members would then need to be added/removed so having
the other whole group DL in there won't give us granularity. I've also
tried copying/pasting and then expanding them but it just pastes their
names and not their individual email addresses which I need to put the
bulk of these into the new DL, so still researching this.

Yes. Is it an outlook DL or a GAL DL?

You can get a list of members by forwarding an Outlook DL as a vcard.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/dl/dl.asp

To get the gal list, add it to a message, expand it and copy the names.
Paste in a message, notepad, where ever and edit. Outlook will correctly
resolve the names.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/gal_to_dl/gal_to_dl.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Hello, is there a way to bulk extract the individual email addresses
from an existing Distribution List Membership group and import/copy them
into another new slightly different group instead of having to go in
manually one-by-one when adding/assigning members in the 'Modify
Members' section? Thanks in advance.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

When you paste the names in the new DL (and actually add them to the DL),
outlook will resolve them to the addresses in the GAL.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Thanks all for the responses so far, much appreciated. But our new DL
needs each of their individual email addresses to start off with which as
in time individual members would then need to be added/removed so having
the other whole group DL in there won't give us granularity. I've also
tried copying/pasting and then expanding them but it just pastes their
names and not their individual email addresses which I need to put the
bulk of these into the new DL, so still researching this.

Yes. Is it an outlook DL or a GAL DL?

You can get a list of members by forwarding an Outlook DL as a vcard.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/dl/dl.asp

To get the gal list, add it to a message, expand it and copy the names.
Paste in a message, notepad, where ever and edit. Outlook will correctly
resolve the names.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/gal_to_dl/gal_to_dl.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Hello, is there a way to bulk extract the individual email addresses
from an existing Distribution List Membership group and import/copy them
into another new slightly different group instead of having to go in
manually one-by-one when adding/assigning members in the 'Modify
Members' section? Thanks in advance.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

it should work the same in both versions.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Sorry Diane, I noticed your vcard link mentions Outlook 2007 as I have
only Outlook 2003. And ours looks to be a GAL DL.

Thanks all for the responses so far, much appreciated. But our new DL
needs each of their individual email addresses to start off with which as
in time individual members would then need to be added/removed so having
the other whole group DL in there won't give us granularity. I've also
tried copying/pasting and then expanding them but it just pastes their
names and not their individual email addresses which I need to put the
bulk of these into the new DL, so still researching this.

Yes. Is it an outlook DL or a GAL DL?

You can get a list of members by forwarding an Outlook DL as a vcard.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/dl/dl.asp

To get the gal list, add it to a message, expand it and copy the names.
Paste in a message, notepad, where ever and edit. Outlook will correctly
resolve the names.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/gal_to_dl/gal_to_dl.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Hello, is there a way to bulk extract the individual email addresses
from an existing Distribution List Membership group and import/copy
them into another new slightly different group instead of having to go
in manually one-by-one when adding/assigning members in the 'Modify
Members' section? Thanks in advance.

 

[7777]

Still searching around for my situation here, I am familiar with vba code so
if someone perhaps could point me to some sample code that would be helpful
also.

it should work the same in both versions.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Sorry Diane, I noticed your vcard link mentions Outlook 2007 as I have
only Outlook 2003. And ours looks to be a GAL DL.

Thanks all for the responses so far, much appreciated. But our new DL
needs each of their individual email addresses to start off with which
as in time individual members would then need to be added/removed so
having the other whole group DL in there won't give us granularity.
I've also tried copying/pasting and then expanding them but it just
pastes their names and not their individual email addresses which I need
to put the bulk of these into the new DL, so still researching this.




Yes. Is it an outlook DL or a GAL DL?

You can get a list of members by forwarding an Outlook DL as a vcard.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/dl/dl.asp

To get the gal list, add it to a message, expand it and copy the names.
Paste in a message, notepad, where ever and edit. Outlook will
correctly resolve the names.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/gal_to_dl/gal_to_dl.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Hello, is there a way to bulk extract the individual email addresses
from an existing Distribution List Membership group and import/copy
them into another new slightly different group instead of having to go
in manually one-by-one when adding/assigning members in the 'Modify
Members' section? Thanks in advance.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

See http://slipstick.me/jing/get_dl.swf

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Still searching around for my situation here, I am familiar with vba code
so if someone perhaps could point me to some sample code that would be
helpful also.

it should work the same in both versions.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Sorry Diane, I noticed your vcard link mentions Outlook 2007 as I have
only Outlook 2003. And ours looks to be a GAL DL.


Thanks all for the responses so far, much appreciated. But our new DL
needs each of their individual email addresses to start off with which
as in time individual members would then need to be added/removed so
having the other whole group DL in there won't give us granularity.
I've also tried copying/pasting and then expanding them but it just
pastes their names and not their individual email addresses which I
need to put the bulk of these into the new DL, so still researching
this.




Yes. Is it an outlook DL or a GAL DL?

You can get a list of members by forwarding an Outlook DL as a vcard.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/dl/dl.asp

To get the gal list, add it to a message, expand it and copy the
names. Paste in a message, notepad, where ever and edit. Outlook will
correctly resolve the names.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/gal_to_dl/gal_to_dl.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Hello, is there a way to bulk extract the individual email addresses
from an existing Distribution List Membership group and import/copy
them into another new slightly different group instead of having to
go in manually one-by-one when adding/assigning members in the
'Modify Members' section? Thanks in advance.

 

[7777]

I ended up adding those individual members manually since it was only under
200 members and was spending more time researching than adding them. I did
try to initially paste them like your video clip demonstrates Diane but the
paste option was disabled and kept giving me that beep of not allowing me
and not sure if it was because ours is an existing G.A.L. and technically
not a create new D.L like the video showed. But certainly would look into
that again if like thousands or millions of members needed to be ported
over next time, thanks all for the help, much appreciated. Cheers

See http://slipstick.me/jing/get_dl.swf

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Still searching around for my situation here, I am familiar with vba code
so if someone perhaps could point me to some sample code that would be
helpful also.

it should work the same in both versions.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Sorry Diane, I noticed your vcard link mentions Outlook 2007 as I have
only Outlook 2003. And ours looks to be a GAL DL.


Thanks all for the responses so far, much appreciated. But our new DL
needs each of their individual email addresses to start off with which
as in time individual members would then need to be added/removed so
having the other whole group DL in there won't give us granularity.
I've also tried copying/pasting and then expanding them but it just
pastes their names and not their individual email addresses which I
need to put the bulk of these into the new DL, so still researching
this.




Yes. Is it an outlook DL or a GAL DL?

You can get a list of members by forwarding an Outlook DL as a vcard.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/dl/dl.asp

To get the gal list, add it to a message, expand it and copy the
names. Paste in a message, notepad, where ever and edit. Outlook will
correctly resolve the names.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/gal_to_dl/gal_to_dl.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Hello, is there a way to bulk extract the individual email addresses
from an existing Distribution List Membership group and import/copy
them into another new slightly different group instead of having to
go in manually one-by-one when adding/assigning members in the
'Modify Members' section? Thanks in advance.

 

[Diane Poremsky [Outlook MVP]]

Are you working with a DL in Outlook's Contacts or in the GAL? You can't
add DLs in Contacts to a DL in the GAL.



Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/
OutlookForums http://www.outlookforums.com

Paste is not an option. Ctl V also does not work. I don't see any import
options. I tried pasting to a Personal Distribution List and adding the
PDL to the Global Distribution List, but it didn't work. I was not able to
access personal lists under Add Users.

When you paste the names in the new DL (and actually add them to the DL),
outlook will resolve them to the addresses in the GAL.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook& Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Thanks all for the responses so far, much appreciated. But our new DL
needs each of their individual email addresses to start off with which as
in time individual members would then need to be added/removed so having
the other whole group DL in there won't give us granularity. I've also
tried copying/pasting and then expanding them but it just pastes their
names and not their individual email addresses which I need to put the
bulk of these into the new DL, so still researching this.




Yes. Is it an outlook DL or a GAL DL?

You can get a list of members by forwarding an Outlook DL as a vcard.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/dl/dl.asp

To get the gal list, add it to a message, expand it and copy the names.
Paste in a message, notepad, where ever and edit. Outlook will correctly
resolve the names.
http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/gal_to_dl/gal_to_dl.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook& Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/

Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile?
http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602

Hello, is there a way to bulk extract the individual email addresses
from an existing Distribution List Membership group and import/copy them
into another new slightly different group instead of having to go in
manually one-by-one when adding/assigning members in the 'Modify
Members' section? Thanks in advance.