My first thought is "how stinkin' large is this group anyway?"
If the size of the group is causing enumeration to take too long, divide and conquer. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 10:01 AM To: scripting@lists.myITforum.com Subject: [scripting] Simple query timing out I'm trying to enumerate a group's membership, and export to a csv. Here's my command: Get-AdGroupMember -Identity "ProjectTracking_Users" | Select Name | export-csv c:\tracking.csv -NoTypeInfo When I run this, it ends up timing out with this: Get-ADGroupMember : The operation returned because the timeout limit was exceeded. At line:1 char:1 + Get-ADGroupMember -identity "ProjectTracking_Users" | Select Name | e ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : OperationTimeout: (ProjectTracking_Users:ADGroup) [Get-ADGroupMember], TimeoutExceptio n + FullyQualifiedErrorId : The operation returned because the timeout limit was exceeded.,Microsoft.ActiveDirecto ry.Management.Commands.GetADGroupMember I searched online, but the only thing that comes up is a size limit, not a timeout limit. Any Ideas? Thanks, Joe Heaton Information Technology Operations Branch Data and Technology Division CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1700 9th Street, 3rd Floor Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 Every Californian should conserve water. Find out how at: <http://saveourwater.com/> SaveOurWater_Logo <http://saveourwater.com/> SaveOurWater.com . <http://drought.ca.gov/> Drought.CA.gov
