Listing Domain Controllers
Active directory sites and services can be seen as an administrative tool used to manage sites and the related components on microsoft server systems.
Listing domain controllers. List of all the domain controllers in the ad domain. To list all the domain controllers in the domain northamerica type the following command at the command prompt. In this article we ll describe how to generate all domain controllers in the active directory sites and services tool.
To list the domain controller in the forest that holds the schema fsmo. Nltest exe dclist domain name example. If that s where all your domain controllers accounts are stored then you can retrieve your list just by enumerating the computer accounts in that ou.
Ps get a list of your domain controllers including name ip os and site get a list of your domain controllers including name ip os and site using powershell. But with introduction of powershell things changed a lot to give more flexibility to system administrators and developers. Get addomaincontroller filter select object name.
For better performance use directory searcher class method to get list domain controllers in c instead of domain class. Get module name activedirectory listavailable. Below piece of powershell code helps to you get it.
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. Active directory attribute mapping with friendly name user active directory search filter examples create new active directory user in c remote group policy update using gpupdate in c. 5 star 1 downloaded 2 967 times.
Favorites add to favorites. Basically you can get list of all domain controllers from your domain using just two commands. Import the activedirectory module if it is not loaded.