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

In this blog you will see how to get the specified user group information 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 using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell $uri="http://serverName:10736/sites/ECT/_vti_bin/UserGroup.asmx?wsdl" ## $groupName is the string that contains the group name for which the information has to be returned [String]$groupName="TestGroup1" ## Web Service Reference - http://Site/_vti_bin/UserGroup.asmx $usergroupWebServiceReference = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $uri -UseDefaultCredential [System.Xml.XmlNode]$xmlNode=$usergroupWebServiceReference.GetGroupInfo($groupName) ## Creates an GroupInfo.xml file in the D:\ which contains the information about the specific group $output = New-Object -TypeName System.IO.StreamWriter -ArgumentList "D:\GroupInfo.xml", $false $output.WriteLine("<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?>") $output.WriteLine($xmlNode.OuterXml) $output.WriteLine() $output.Dispose()

Output - GroupInfo.xml: