Steps Involved:
- Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell by going to Start | All Programs | SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products | SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (Run as Administrator).
- Run the following script.
Powershell Script:
## Get the user group information for the specified groups using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell
$uri="http://serverName:10736/sites/ECT/_vti_bin/UserGroup.asmx?wsdl"
## $groupNamesXmlPath is the string that contains the xml path where all the group names are specified
$groupNamesXmlPath="D:\\GroupNames.xml"
$xmlDocument = New-Object -TypeName System.Xml.XmlDocument
$xmlDocument.Load($groupNamesXmlPath)
## $groupNamesXml is a System.Xml.XmlNode object that specifies one or more group names for which the information has to be returned
$groupNamesXml = $xmlDocument.DocumentElement
## Web Service Reference - http://Site/_vti_bin/UserGroup.asmx
$usergroupWebServiceReference = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $uri -UseDefaultCredential
[System.Xml.XmlNode]$xmlNode=$usergroupWebServiceReference.GetGroupCollection($groupNamesXml)
## Creates an GroupCollection.xml file in the D:\ which contains the information for the specific groups
$output = New-Object -TypeName System.IO.StreamWriter -ArgumentList "D:\GroupCollection.xml", $false
$output.WriteLine("<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?>")
$output.WriteLine($xmlNode.OuterXml)
$output.WriteLine()
$output.Dispose()
write-host -ForegroundColor Magenta "Displaying all the group names.........."
foreach($group in $xmlNode.Groups.Group)
{
write-host -ForegroundColor Green $group.Name
}
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Input - GroupNames.xml:
![GroupNames.jpg]()
Output :
![output.jpg]()
Output - GroupCollection.xml:
![groupColl.jpg]()