Query Domain Controller
You can even find the domain controllers or global catalogs that are in a particular site or that cover a particular site by querying the following.
Query domain controller. Get your ad domain domainname get addomain dnsroot get all dc s alldcs get addomaincontroller filter server domainname select object hostname ipv4address isglobalcatalog site forest operatingsystem or alldcs get adforest globalcatalogs. When a member server or workstation needs to find a domain controller it goes through the following steps. Read also non authoritative restore of ad domain controller from backup for example to execute the above ldap search query using get aduser open the powershell exe console and run the command.
You can get domain controllers by setting the identity filter or discover parameters. This article explains dsquery command line tool and hows how you can use this command line tool to get the list of domain controllers based upon your requirement. To find all the domain controllers in the forest with dn and rdn.
Query the primary dns server for the all domain controller srv records in the domain these have the format of ldap tcp. In addition to the above query you can also use the below query to collect all domain controllers in your organization. Dsquery server forest.
Dsquery server o rdn forest. If you do not specify this parameter netdom query uses the current user account. I was hoping to find a way to find the domain controller without having to install anything additional.
Specifies the user account that makes the connection with the domain that you specify in the d or domain parameter. To find all the domain controllers in a domain. Ldap tcp sitename sites domaindnsname gc tcp sitename sites forestdnsname see recipe 11 18 for more information on site coverage.
Specifies the name of the domain controller that performs the query. The get addomaincontroller cmdlet gets the domain controllers specified by the parameters. Mydomain local this will return an entry for each dc in the domain.