Those headers correspond to the names of AD users’ attributes. Lists created in this file format have headers in the first row. Watch the video below for a quick walkthrough and read the following article if you want to learn more.īefore we start, a quick word on the CSV files which are used to save users’ data. In this article I am going to show you how to do it. Luckily, users can be exported easily from Active Directory and saved into a CSV (comma separated value) file. You can imagine how painful it would be to do those tasks manually, especially in a large organization. Good examples include Exchange migration and creating a test Exchange environment. You might need to export users from Active Directory in more than one situation. : This blog post was updated on March 19.