Groups in Active Directory

universal group is a security or distribution group that contains users, groups, and computers from any domain in its forest as members. You can give universal security groups rights and permissions on resources in any domain in the forest.

global group is a group that can be used in its own domain, in member servers and in workstations of the domain, and in trusting domains. In all those locations, you can give a global group rights and permissions and the global group can become a member of local groups. However, a global group can contain user accounts that are only from its own domain.

domain local group is a security or distribution group that can contain universal groups, global groups, other domain local groups from its own domain, and accounts from any domain in the forest. You can give domain local security groups rights and permissions on resources that reside only in the same domain where the domain local group is located.

http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/231273

Displaying Distribution Groups Members and Email Address Using Powershell

Get-DistributionGroup -Identity "A name from the groups text file you created above" | Get-DistributionGroupMember | ft name, primarysmtpaddress >> C:\\members.txt