40 Powershell Get Domain Name Of Local Computer Update

Find computer name and domain using powershell sometimes it s useful to know the computer name and domain you are working on.

Powershell get domain name of local computer. You can specify the domain by setting the identity or current parameters. Csv net net core net framework 2009 summer scripting games 2010 scripting games 2011 scripting games 2012 scripting games 2013 scripting games 2014 scripting games 2014 winter scripting games 2015 holiday series 4 0 70 410 aaron nelson access application acls activation active directory active directory application mode adam activex data. After my research i felt below procedure is very standard approach compared to any other options.

You can identify the domain object to get by its distinguished name dn guid security identifier sid dns domain name or netbios name. To get fqdn of local computer. The get addomaincontroller cmdlet gets the domain controllers specified by the parameters.

Userdomain gives the domain name the user account belongs to it could be different from the domain of the computer. Alternatively we can use wmic to retrieve domain name. You can get domain controllers by setting the identity filter or discover parameters.

Wmic computersystem get domain. You can identify a domain controller by its guid ipv4address global ipv6address or dns host name. You can also identify a domain controller by the name.

Often as a windows system administrator you will want to get a list of computer host names from an ou in active directory. Here are a few ways of doing it with powershell using system directoryservices directorysearcher adsisearcher with an ldap query get adcomputer from the microsoft activedirectory module cmdlets and get qadcomputer from quest activeroles. The first of the following commands returns the fqdn of the computer on the format whereas the second one returns a list of information about the computer.

The identity parameter specifies the active directory domain to get. The identity parameter specifies the domain controller to get. Also this may give you the netbios name of the computer not dns fqdn name.