Query Domain Controller Roles

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.

Query domain controller roles. Queries the domain for the list of domain controllers. To get pc type and domain role using just one command we have to use select object cmdlet after the pipeline. The netdom tool is built into windows. Roles like domain controller by the primary ad ds group.

Schema master domain naming master. Netdom query fsmo command line tool. Queries the domain for the current primary domain controller. Netdom is a command line tool used to manage active directory domains and trusts.

Queries the domain for the current list of operations master role holders. Function is based on get wmiobject command and it query win32 computersystem class. There are two forest wide roles and three domain wide roles. Usually the first domain controller that you create in the first domain assumes the operations master roles.

Tracks the assignment of sids security identifiers throughout the domain. It is the master of your domain names. As usual there is more than one way to do most things in windows powershell but here are some syntax examples to meet your needs. I know there are various methods and scripts available in web to get the list of domain controllers information in a domain.

Queries the domain for the list of ous under which the user that you specify can create a computer object. Still i want to write this post to present simplest way of doing it from a windows xp windows 2003 machine using my favorite command nltest. The domain naming master makes sure that you don t create a second domain in the same forest with the same name as another. Pdc rid pool manager infrastructure master.

You will have to wait for hardware inventory to be reported and the collection to update again before a new client on a domain controller ends up in the collection. Creating new domains isn t something that happens often so of all the roles this one is most likely to live on the same dc with another role. Since i have just 1 domain controller in my setup the member count is 1. The query runs and gathers all the computers that have got system roles as domain controllers.

Domain controllers device collection. Get addomain select object infrastructuremaster ridmaster pdcemulator. I use netdom query fsmo to list my domain controllers that hold the fsmo roles but can i do it with windows powershell. You can assign these roles to other domain controllers in the domain or forest but only one domain controller at a time can hold each operation s master role.