Query Domain Controller Powershell

You can get this information easily using 1 liner script but results will be presented as numbers.

Query domain controller powershell. Finding nearest domain controller for a given active directory domain is very useful when writing scripts using activedirectory powershell module in multi domain forest environments. In this blog post i will carry out some powershell commands to get a list of domain computers filtered by operating system. Finally i will query all domain computers and sort them by operating system. Here is the applicable portion of the script.

March 13 2013 by ucinfo posted in powershell. Basically you can get list of all domain controllers from your domain using just two commands. Today i want to show how to get domain role and pc type using powershell function. Get addomaincontroller discover select site.

You can get domain controllers by setting the identity filter or discover parameters. I then select the most useful for me properties from each wmi class and this is what i store in the object. So knocked this up to test. Domain role and pc type.

You can also identify a domain controller by the name. Yes we do have one. Fortunately the following powershell cmdlet saved me a lot of time and i wanted to share it with you. One object for each found domain controller creates.

Portqry all domain controllers using powershell. First of all you need to make sure that the following module is loaded in order to use the cmdlet that meets our needs. This is because the cmdlets in activedirectory module will by default query the domains controllers that belongs to local machine domain. The identity parameter specifies the domain controller to get.

Function is based on get wmiobject command and it query win32 computersystem class. Isn t it looking a bit complex to query the site name. This powershell script connects to each domain controller specified in the dclist txt file and then collects the name of the event log to query the destination domain controllers from the querylogs txt file. Yesterday i needed to quickly list all the names of all the domain controllers in the ad domain and the total count.

Today i would like to show you how to prepare domain controllers report using data table to get all dc s we will use activedirectory module. I will successively retrieve all enabled windows servers windows clients and domain controllers and display them separately. Below helps you to query the site name of dc you connected. So i don t trust my network guys sorry as they say all ports are open but think they is not telling me the trust.

New object typename psobject property. I run each wmi query against my local computer and examine the output. Note that above command requries activedirectory powershell module which is generally.