get-adforest

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Getting all domain controllers in a forest 2

This entry was posted in Powershell Engine and tagged Active Directory domain forest get-addomain get-adforest on 21st November 2014 by Dimitri

Using something like Get-ADDomainController -Forest would be something too easy for module designers at Microsoft. Or does Microsoft no longer have multi-domain forests in its internal IT? Never mind, here is a nice snippet to retrieve that you may want to adapt to the fields you need to retrieve

Retrieve all domain controllers from a forest

(Get-ADForest).Domains | % { Get-ADDomainController -Discover -DomainName $_ } | % { Get-ADDomainController -server $_.Name -filter * } | Select Name, Domain, Forest, IPv4Address, Site | ft

1	(Get-ADForest).Domains | % { Get-ADDomainController -Discover -DomainName  $_ } | % { Get-ADDomainController -server $_.Name -filter * } | Select Name, Domain, Forest, IPv4Address, Site | ft

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