Get the user group information for the specified groups using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell

In this blog you will see how to get the information for the specified groups using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell.

Steps Involved:

1. Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell by going to Start | All Programs | SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products | SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (Run as Administrator).
2. 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 }

Input - GroupNames.xml:





Output :




Output - GroupCollection.xml: