Distribution List Reports

Get detailed insights into your organization's distribution lists using Exchange Reporter Plus, a granular Exchange reporting, change auditing, and monitoring tool. View Exchange distribution lists' details, monitor their traffic, and identify inactive distribution groups in your organization effortlessly with pre-configured, extensive reports.

Distribution List General reports

View details about the Exchange email distribution lists in your organization, their members, and status using the following Exchange reports.

• Distribution Lists
• Distribution List Members
• Inactive Distribution Lists
• Message Delivery Restrictions
• Permissions based on Distribution Groups

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Distribution Lists

List complete details about all the distribution lists in Exchange (mailing lists) available in your organization, including the:

• Distribution group name.
• Group type and scope.
• Total number of members in the group.
• Email address of the group.
• Owner of the distribution list.
• Name of the person by whom the group is managed.

Besides mentioning the number of members in a distribution group, this report also reveals the group type and scope. Most importantly, it shows who the owner of a group is and who manages the group (the owner need not necessarily be the manager of a distribution list). Additionally, it provides the distinguished name of the group manager.

Distribution List Members

View all the distribution lists available in your Exchange organization. Choose a distribution group to see its members, along with details such as:

• Name of the member.
• Email address of the member.
• User type (mail-enabled, mailbox-enabled, or contact).

Inactive Distribution Lists

Track Microsoft Exchange distribution lists that have been inactive in terms of email transactions over a specified period of time.

Message Delivery Restrictions

View the message restrictions placed on distribution lists including the details such as:

• Distribution group name, type, and scope.
• Email address.
• Message restrictions (accept messages from and reject messages from).
• Creation time.

Permissions based on Distribution Groups

View the permissions for all the distribution groups in your Exchange organization using this report.

Report on distribution lists' traffic in Exchange

It is important to track the mail traffic of distribution lists of your Exchange organization. PowerShell scripting only makes this task complicated and time-consuming. But with Exchange Reporter Plus, , you can use various reports that can help you keep an eye on the mail traffic of distribution lists. Read more about our distribution list traffic reports.

The Distribution List reports display data for Microsoft Exchange server versions 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. Export the reports to a desired destination folder or even email them in various formats, including CSV, PDF (Adobe Acrobat), XLS (Excel) and HTML.