View a group's members

This page is for administrators who manage groups for an organization. If you're not an admin and need help managing your own groups, go to the Learning Center.

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As a Groups administrator, you can always view the members of all of your organization's groups. The access and visibility settings you choose for your organization's groups, combined with an individual group's settings, determine who else can view the group's members.

View a group's direct members

As an administrator, you can easily identify which members of a group are direct members.

Using the Admin console

1. In the Google Admin console, go to Menu Directory Groups.

   Go to Groups

   Requires having the Groups administrator privilege.

2. Click the name of a group Members.

Using Google Groups

Requires turning on Groups for Business

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. On the left, click Members.
4. To view people who have been banned from the group, on the left, click Banned users.

View all group members

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In the Google Admin console, you can review all members of a group (direct and indirect, including banned members) in a single list. If groups are members of the parent group, they appear in the list as members. Members of groups nested in other groups appear as indirect members of the parent group. If a member belongs to the parent group and another group nested inside the group, they are direct and indirect members.

When reviewing group members, note the following:

• If groups are members of the parent group, they appear as a child group in the list as members.
• Members of groups nested in other groups appear as indirect members of the parent group. If a member belongs to the parent group and another group nested inside the group, they are direct and indirect members.
• For groups classified as internal, external members in nested (child) groups are automatically filtered out (excluded) from the parent internal group. These external members retain their membership in the child group.
  • This means those external members of the child group are effectively no longer members of the parent group, so anything shared with the parent group does not go to the external members of the child group.
  • If they have the correct permissions, users can change the parent group to external, which includes the external members of the child group in the parent group's membership.

To review all members of a group:

1. In the Google Admin console, go to Menu Directory Groups.

   Go to Groups

   Requires having the Groups administrator privilege.

2. Click the name of a group.
3. Click Members.
4. Click Direct and indirect members.

Other ways to view group members

You can also view group members in Gmail and calendar invitations.

Get details at the Learning Center: View or export a group's members

Related topics

• Change a group's access settings in the Admin console
• Set permissions for managing members & content
• Invite a group to calendar events